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[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

400kg makes a huge difference. Road damage increases proportional to the fourth power of axle load, which is like 2x in your example.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago

huge

For the smallest car on the market it's around 20%. It rapidly gets smaller the bigger the vehicle is. Exchanging lack of tailpipe emissions for less than 20% increase in road damage is nobrainer.