Power Steering Scars: Why Heavy EVs Tear Up Cheap Driveways
Electric cars weigh over two tonnes. Learn why dry steering rips up cheap block paving and how our heavy hardcore sub-bases stop your drive from sinking.
Why Heavy EVs Tear Up Cheap Driveways
You see electric motors parked everywhere these days. Trouble is, no one actually thinks about what they weigh. Put a massive battery pack inside a modern SUV and you're looking at two and a half tonnes of dead weight. That is a hell of a lot of weight sitting on four tyres.
The real damage happens when you pull up to park.
If you sit still and turn the wheel, all that weight grinds the rubber down hard into the surface. Got cheap block paving sitting on a thin bed of sand? The power steering will literally twist the blocks right out of the drive. If it's a cheap resin drive, that same twisting motion just tears the top layer straight off. Give it a few months, and your brand new driveway is covered in tyre scars, sunken ruts, and loose bricks.
A drive is only as strong as the hardcore underneath it.
When we dig a drive out, we go deep. We put down a serious layer of MOT Type 1 stone and wacker it down solid. If we're laying blocks, we use a proper compacted screed and heavy edge restraints so the bricks are locked in tight. If we do resin, it goes down over a solid tarmac or concrete bas.
You can sit and turn the wheel of a heavy EV on one of our drives all day and it won't move a millimetre. Don't park a heavy motor on a flimsy surface and expect it to survive.
Stop by the office at 78 Alma Rd, Bournemouth BH9 1AN, UK, or call 07835 390845.
