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Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market (www.insurancejournal.com)
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[โ€“] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The biggest issue with an EV conversion is the weight of the batteries. For a lot of passenger cars, adding 500kg of batteries maxes out or even exceeds the vehicle's gross weight.

[โ€“] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 52 minutes ago

These conversions replace the entire drivetrain so you'd be losing the weight of the V8, transmission, transfer case, and drivelines and replacing them with a little 4 cylinder engine, generator, and batteries.