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What about Hybrid SUVS?
My SUV weighs 1700kg you can’t have a sunroof and a spare tyre because it pushes the weight too high.
Tyre wear is minimal at 26,000miles (a colleagues saloon EV has worn out a set in 4000). Regenerative braking so it seems very little brake wear.
Higher bonnet but active crash avoidance and softer front.
It’s narrower and shorter than my old estate , the space used is vertical.
The engine doesn’t idle it switches off at lights.Reply rant over
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I think if you SUV is more efficient than a small car and you dont drive badly you are the outlier and not part of the problem, were your tyres slashed?
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How does the emissions and economy compare to the equivalent estate or hatchback from the same manufacturer?
People keep saying their new SUV is better than their old car which isn't an apple for apple's comparison
amey
greentricky
SUVs:
Increasing popularity has totally wiped out any emissions reduction from the rise in EVs. Heavier, burn more fuel.
From a public health perspective: more weight = more brake and tyre wear, more asthma, more entrenched health inequalities and shortened lives.
Higher bonnets and more weight= more road deaths. Road injury second highest cause of death globally for young people.
Wider= more congestion. Blocking the roads more when parked. More congestion=more idling engines and more pollution.
The group letting down tyres have seen a desperate situation and are doing what they can, more power to them. These vehicles represent the violent, selfish worst of car culture. Someone said "most cars are not SUVs so this misses the bigger picture". But they're a rapidly growing proportion of the problem. Ban them from cities. They are death machines. We banned hand guns.