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Old 12-01-2018, 02:45 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
Not really that impressed. The rear seat bottom for my Prius weighs like 2 pounds.

In high school we made a seat for our EV out of nylon fabric and attached it to existing frame members. That weighed under a pound.
His goal though is to follow the standards required to meet crash tests

You know the laws that prevent Toyota from gluing an 18lb semi flexible solar panel to the roof sheet metal but allow the owner to put on a 200lb roof rack with a canoe on top.
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