Electrification of vehicles is necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but in Quebec the increasing weight of the battery-powered vehicles could cause electricity demand to rise well beyond projections.
That’s the conclusion of an analysis by Université de Montréal researchers Frédérik Lavictoire and Simon Brassard, supervised by Normand Mousseau, a professor in the Department of Physics.
Their results are published in the journal Sustainable Futures.
Cars are getting heavier
Between 2011 and 2021, the average weight of vehicles sold…
