Well, Ralph Nader comes to mind. He is responsible for most of our auto safety laws.
Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, April 22, 2021, 5:54 PM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: It’s always easy to blame it on lawyers, and while I’m not one, lawyers have nothing to do with auto manufacturers needing to meet regulatory standards, except for helping them interpret the requirements. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Apr 22, 2021, at 2:58 PM, Peter VanDerWal via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Unfortunately it's not really the automakers fault, it's the lawyers. > > Production vehicles have to meet modern safety standards and I doubt you > could meet those standards using lightweight (read fragile) materials, not > without incuring a great deal of extra costs. > > Even if you went with hand-laid carbon-fiber, imagine what would happen to it > if it got hit broadside by a full size pickup. > > >> >> But you're right; the mainstream automakers - even Tesla - can't seem to >> imagine much of anything but the same big, heavy cars and trucks that their >> customers are used to filling with gasoline or Diesel fuel. And in fact, >> just as with ICEVs, the trend in production EVs is mostly toward still >> bigger, clumsier SUVs and crossovers. >> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210423/06e40437/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
