nberry:

Correct.kiss To have too light of a car with a high power to weight ratio only makes the car unstable. Even if you use the throttle judiciously, it will remain somewhat unmanageable. 

Right but if the power-to-weight ratio was hypothetically too much for the potential customer base of the car (not likely to happen in a modern streetcar), the correct solution would be to decrease the power or offer different power settings, not increase the mass of the car to compensate needlessly and its added negative handling drawbacks that would acompany that.

Also ironically, in the interview, Mizuno talks about the other job of a car is "ecology, for a better future", and yet adding weight to a car is opposed to ecology because it wastes more fuel to do the same amount of work.


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