Continuing my rant on EV weight… here’s the point most critics miss: weight isn’t the enemy. Uncontrolled weight is.

Mass only becomes a real danger when a vehicle can’t manage it under dynamic conditions — sudden stops, sharp turns, emergency maneuvers. All modern cars (including EVs) have far better capacity to do that than anything that came before.

Yet when nothing bad happens, nobody tells that story. If a modern EV performs a perfect panic stop, there’s no drama. There’s no spectacle. Well, apart from being absolutely astounded that it stopped so quickly. People just go home alive and complain about the temp of their coffee or that they dropped their phone while posting something on Tik Tok or Instagram.

That’s the tragedy of good engineering: when it works, people assume nothing changed.

Once you look at weight through the lens of control, the debate starts to shift. At that point, the real question isn’t whether cars are heavier—but whether we’re judging them by the right standards.