When I bought my Civic Type-R it didn't even have an option for air conditioning due to the weight it added. For some types of car every pound (though they are called grams in the real world) counts. I suspect this will be popular in the lightweight performance car world.
For sure losing 30+lbs is a big deal in the high-performance automotive world, and Ohm's price premium is nothing compared to, say, replacing structural elements with carbon fiber etc.
But I don't think your average mass-market consumer is going to care much about 30lbs, or notice a difference in performance or handling if they did.
> But I don't think your average mass-market consumer is going to care much about 30lbs, or notice a difference in performance or handling if they did.
In reality, if you looked through the car of a random sample of the population, you'd probably find about 30lbs of crap in their car that they could remove (sporting equipment, rubbish, bags, etc).
I'm not sure why my comment got so downvoted, that's kind of weird as I was just stating facts.
Absolutely the average buyer of a Camry is not going to care about this. But that wasn't at all my point. Some cars (more often in Europe/Japan where driving is more fun because they have corners), take weight seriously. I think car manufacturers might take this option seriously in their sport divisions.
Probably because of the "in the real world they're called 'grams'" remark. I vastly prefer metric over Imperial, too, but that came across as a tad snobbish, eh?
I upvoted, though, for what it's worth; weight savings aren't just the purview of racecars.
