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> is incredibly heavy and so sticks to the ground

That's... that's not how cars work.




(I get that you're trying to be funny. That's OK.)

Nevertheless: He means that electric cars have a "low center of gravity" which matters immensely in collision scenarios.

See this short video of a Model X in a capsizing test: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1310623334367989761?s=...


"Low CoG" and "Heavy" are not at all the same thing, and frankly I've known plenty of people in meatspace who genuinely thought "moar heavy === better grip", so I may be over-sensitive to this particular falsehood.




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