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Electric vehicles would make a huge difference to me and many others that suffer from asthma. Moving the emissions away from the vehicles , away from city cent
by lawlessone 7y ago
Electric vehicles would make a huge difference to me and many others that suffer from asthma.
Moving the emissions away from the vehicles , away from city centres and roads to the factories and power stations where they can be controlled would save thousands of lives.
Our children will look at us how we look at people during the industrial revolution. And a gradual change is better than no change at all.
- acd 7y agoVery true many countries in Europe has shifted to diesels due to lower co2 but they make the air dirty. Dirty air is bad for asthmatics. Hybrid gasoline/biogas can be as co2 efficient as diesel if not more with a lot cleaner tail pipe air. Almost zero local emission with 10kw batteries and upwards.
- baud147258 7y agoThe shift to diesel was also caused by a lower price of gas and a lower consumption for medium and long distances.
- growlist 7y agoExhaust emissions are only part of the air pollution problem - brake discs and tyres contribute around 50%, as I recall. Depressing! But we need lighter vehicles all round, and less travelling in general.
- NullPrefix 7y ago>brake discs Regenerative braking does not have this problem. Although the tyre problem remain.
- growlist 7y agoThough the extra weight of the regenerative system has to be taken into account.
- srfilipek 7y agoTesla's brake pads for the Model 3 are scheduled for replacement after 250,000 miles of use (according to tesla rep. I spoke to). No, I did not mistype that.
- whenchamenia 7y agoJust checked mine on my honda with 200,000 miles. Fronts were a bit low, so I replaced them, rears were still about at half wear. Tesla is no magic beast in this reguard. The secret is a manual transmission.
- srfilipek 7y agoIf I drove my manual better, I could probably achieve that, but spirited driving made me replace everything twice over in 100k miles, with a third needed soon. :(
- NullPrefix 7y agoYou pay twice everytime you brake. Once for the gas and then for the brakes too.
- rootusrootus 7y agoTires are a far more significant pollution source than brakes.
- WorldMaker 7y agoBut still a far less significant pollution source than diesel (especially) and gas exhaust.
- r00fus 7y agoCite needed. Also types of pollution matter. Do brakes & tires contribute to climate change or to the PM2.5? Yes we need to move towards more sustainable transport (mass transit) and reduce the overall load but EVs don’t hamper this movement.
- growlist 7y agoAgreed, it's a complex topic. Just pointing out that EVs alone won't solve air pollution from transport. https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1907101151_20190709_Non_Exhaust_Emissions_typeset_Final.pdf https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1...
- oftenwrong 7y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2018/03/27/congestion-pricing-clears-the-lungs-too-researchers-say/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2018/03/27/c... >Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and other institutions who studied Stockholm’s congestion-pricing scheme found that the policy cut air pollution in the city center and reduced childhood asthma cases by nearly 50 percent.