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Deteriorating parking lots could collapse under the weight of heavy EVs

Due to the aging infrastructure of many parking garages in the country, engineers said that the amount of weight the buildings can hold should be raised and that maintenance of parking lots should be improved, according to a"I don't want to be too alarmist, but there definitely is the potential for some of the early car parks in poor condition to collapse," Chris Whapples, a structural engineer and car park consultant, told The Telegraph.

Steve Holmes, senior technical manager at building supply firm Sika, also told the news outlet that many parking lots in the UK had structural flaws"baked in" due to a

 

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this is a new one i hadn't considered ... what about bridges backed-up with traffic-jammed EV's? RWMann senyorreporter

lol this

Being that many ICE cars, SUVs & Pick-ups weigh as much as an EV or more, this seems like it would be a problem now. Dontcha’ think?

We never heard you about this when the weight of gas-SUVs was ever increasing over the years..

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