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The question is reasonable and I'm not sure why it was heavily downvoted, tire wear and road wear depends polynomially on the vehicle weight (I remembered it's

The question is reasonable and I'm not sure why it was heavily downvoted, tire wear and road wear depends polynomially on the vehicle weight (I remembered it's the cube, I tried Googling but Google has turned completely fucking useless for anything serious) edit: it's the 4th power for road damage (!): https://www.denenapoints.com/relationship-vehicle-weight-road-damage/ https://www.denenapoints.com/relationship-vehicle-weight-roa...

jeffbee 5y ago
Tire wear you can just directly calculate from the useful lives of tires on a given car. Search around on Tesla owners' forums to see at what mileage people are replacing their tires. Then you just back it out from diameter x width x tread depth. Teslas come out poorly on this because they are a performance-focussed car with large, soft tires. Some other electrics like the BMW i3 have tiny rock-hard tires that practically never wear out.
- oblio 5y ago
  > Teslas come out poorly on this because they are a performance-focussed car with large, soft tires. Even the Model 3? That's more of an economy car, I'd expect it to have practical tires.
  - jeffbee 5y ago
    It depends on the wheel package.
    - oblio 5y ago
      Interesting. So, in practice, people who care about the environment should probably get the base packages, which most likely have firmer tires?
oblio 5y ago
It's downvoted by EV fanboys because EVs must be pushed into the mainstream at all costs. I'm not kidding. To EV fanboys: issues should be discussed, not hidden away because they're not nice or not solved yet. I think EVs are a great idea, they're great for the environment and personally, I was hoping they'd also be great for air quality. But it seems the air quality part will not happen for quite a long time, until batteries become much lighter, unfortunately.

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The question is reasonable and I'm not sure why it was heavily downvoted, tire wear and road wear depends polynomially on the vehicle weight (I remembered it's

by WithinReason 5y ago

jeffbee 5y ago
Tire wear you can just directly calculate from the useful lives of tires on a given car. Search around on Tesla owners' forums to see at what mileage people are replacing their tires. Then you just back it out from diameter x width x tread depth. Teslas come out poorly on this because they are a performance-focussed car with large, soft tires. Some other electrics like the BMW i3 have tiny rock-hard tires that practically never wear out.
- oblio 5y ago
  > Teslas come out poorly on this because they are a performance-focussed car with large, soft tires. Even the Model 3? That's more of an economy car, I'd expect it to have practical tires.
  - jeffbee 5y ago
    It depends on the wheel package.
    - oblio 5y ago
      Interesting. So, in practice, people who care about the environment should probably get the base packages, which most likely have firmer tires?
oblio 5y ago
It's downvoted by EV fanboys because EVs must be pushed into the mainstream at all costs. I'm not kidding. To EV fanboys: issues should be discussed, not hidden away because they're not nice or not solved yet. I think EVs are a great idea, they're great for the environment and personally, I was hoping they'd also be great for air quality. But it seems the air quality part will not happen for quite a long time, until batteries become much lighter, unfortunately.