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Are EVs too heavy for aging parking garages?

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Old parking garages and new EVs may not be a good mix, an engineer says.
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Nick Bunkley
April 16, 2023 04:00 AM

Electric vehicles might be too heavy for some parking garages that were built with smaller, lighter cars in mind, a report from the British Parking Association warns.

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