I keep seeing the same argument online: electric cars are too heavy. Yes, people like to complain about range, but that’s another rant.

Right now, I’ve a few thoughts about the weight.

People act like EVs invented vehicle mass. They didn’t. We’ve been driving 4,000-plus-pound cars for seventy years.

A mid-1960s full-size sedan — a Chevy Impala, a Ford Galaxie, a Plymouth Fury — often weighed the same as a modern EV crossover. Heavy bodies, big steel frames, cast-iron V8s. They didn’t need batteries to be massive; that was just how cars were built.

But the thing people seem to forget — or maybe never knew — is this: mass isn’t the problem. Control is the thing.

Of course, weight alone doesn’t tell the whole story. If mass were the real villain, those older cars should have been paragons of safety. They weren’t. Which raises the next question: if weight isn’t the problem, what actually was?