To be fair Tesla's are nearly devoid of content and built in a simple manner (i.e. megacast) that lowers weight but also lowers repairability substantially, which also has an environmental cost. This has also lead to very high insurance costs in some cases, in fact the CT is all but uninsurable at normal rates. If they had a similarly optioned ICE, then you could compare weights.
Incorrect. I have a Cybertruck and it insures like any other vehicle in a similar price range, less in many cases due to it's superior safety. It sounds like you are gullible enough to believe the fake media hit pieces designed to protect legacy auto interests.
The front and rear castings have bolt-on replacement parts available inexpensively from Tesla that actually increase the repairability in minor collisions compared to traditional stamped unibody construction. Again, you have fallen victim to the multi-prong fake news strategy to turn people away from buying a Tesla. The truth is the exact opposite of what you have heard.
But instead, we have many other manufacturers with devoted EV's and we see consistently that their EV offerings weigh about 20% more than equivalent ICE offerings.
Mostly true, this is why Tesla can offer so much more value to the new car buyer than every other EV brand (who sell EVs at a loss just to get the price low enough to sell them). They are inferior in just about every way, from the thermal management systems to the software that runs it.
This additional weight comes with a high pollution cost in PM from tires that last 15K miles and a safety cost for pedestrians, motorcyclists & other road users.
Haha! Particulate matter is a big nothingburger! All cars make it, EVs actually make less because they don't use friction brakes to stop, they use electromagnetic braking. If you bought into the fake narrative of "EVs emit more particulate matter" you are just too gullible to fake narratives designed to slow EV adoption and protect legacy gasoline car interests.
Also, who the f*ck still buys a Telsa?! They are not even in the top 15 auto sellers in the world and are falling fast. BYD sells more EV's than them and doesn't even have access to the world's largest economy, the USA.
Our family has 4 Tesla and they are the best cars, by far, that we have ever owned! Two of them are going on 8 years old and they never need anything but cabin filters, wiper blades, washer fluid, and tires. They have never broken or refused to start on frigid mornings, they heat up far faster than gas or diesel vehicles (or even many other EVs, for that matter) and they are very value oriented when compared to the competition. The Cybertruck is the best of the bunch (but only if you need a full-sized pickup). It's a big advantage that they have never broken down, failed to start, or needed oil changes and filters.
Due to the value Tesla offers, they have the best selling car in the world, gas or electric, for the last three years in a row. No single car or truck outsells the Tesla Model Y. Again, I think you have bought into the fake doom and gloom spread by the mainstream media and the rest of the automotive industry. It's normal for sales to be cyclic over the years, no car brands sell more each consecutive year, it's cyclic with the consumer economy and consumer trends. But Tesla sales have not declined far enough for the Model Y to lose it's title of the best-selling car in the world.
What's really interesting, is the mainstream media hasn't even told the public that the best-selling car in the world is a pure electric car! How do you explain that?
