Electric vehicles have rapidly grown in popularity over the last several years as they’ve gotten cheaper, more powerful and easier to charge. But in some cases, say traffic safety experts, they’ve also gotten more dangerous.
In particular, the proliferation of heavier electric trucks in recent years has raised concerns among safety experts who fear their increased speed and weight will lead to deadlier incidents, even as Bay Area governments work to reverse record-setting traffic fatalities and pedestrian deaths in the region. From March 2023 on, , according to S&P Global Mobility.
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