This is actually about SUVs and not about battery cars. But I am afraid there are connections. At least our car manufacturers thought so. Because no one could reach the range of a Tesla, they simply took larger cars as basic bodies, because there was no more battery volume and weight. Voilà, SUVs. There are such things from Audi and Mercedes, I'm not interested in the exact type designation, they have almost a ton of battery weight, so they can drive 400km, that is 250 miles.
In the sum of all these characteristics this is a catastrophic miscarriage.
- SUVS, either with the emotions of superiority or a feeling of safety (although it borders on a subliminally aggressive feeling of safety at the expense of others).
- The size of the SUV feigns social competence. One forgets that in everyday life it is designed for 4 adults only, unless it is a Chevy Suburban. But there is usually only one person sitting in it, or a mother with a child.
- The CO2 footprint. It is already embarrassingly bad for the SUV, if you calculate the mass of car per passenger, even for the ICE. If you add 900 kg of battery, then good night.
There are several studies from different institutes that show that a normal car is much greener. A normal medium-sized electric car, e.g. a Golf, has to drive 120.000 km electrically before its CO2 footprint is justified in comparison to diesel (but only „this good“ if the battery has not to be replaced in the meantime).
For an SUV with 900Kg weight of the battery this calculation or such a study has not been done yet.
I am not a socialist, but it is a problem when masses (in this case the more wealthy masses) are misled by false attractions to buy in combination with false fashions. In the case of the (electric) SUVs I think a pseudo green ideology is just a wrong fashion. The worst kind of cars are morally unscrupulous. This is a success of marketing in combination with successful showing off on the street and in front of ones own garage driveway.
And that is the reason why high-legged compact cars absolutely also want to call themselves SUV.
