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As a resident of any modern city, the reduction in _tailpipe_ emissions alone would make it worth it in terms of a cleaner local environment, even if there were
by darkteflon 4y ago
As a resident of any modern city, the reduction in _tailpipe_ emissions alone would make it worth it in terms of a cleaner local environment, even if there were no reduction in absolute emissions which - as many commenters have pointed out - depends in large part on your generation mix.
- clouddrover 4y agoMaybe. EVs still generate non-exhaust emissions: https://jalopnik.com/emissions-from-tire-wear-are-a-whole-lot-worse-than-we-1849023188 https://jalopnik.com/emissions-from-tire-wear-are-a-whole-lo... https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-losing-tread https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-los... https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-worse-exhaust-emissions https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-...
- darkteflon 4y agoOkay, but clearly ICE vehicles do those things too. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to eschew electrification of vehicle drivetrains just because you can’t yet solve tire wear pollution. I’m very much in the “let’s design our cities for people and bicycles” camp, but if people have to drive, I’d certainly prefer not to have my kids breathing the by-products of combusting hydrocarbons all day every day.
- clouddrover 4y agoYour kids will be breathing in non-exhaust emissions all day every day: > "Non-exhaust emissions (NEE) are particles released into the air from brake wear, tyre wear, road surface wear and resuspension of road dust during on-road vehicle usage. No legislation is in place to limit or reduce NEE, but they cause a great deal of concern for air quality. > "NEEs are currently believed to constitute the majority of primary particulate matter from road transport, 60 percent of PM2.5 and 73 percent of PM10 – and in its 2019 report ‘Non-Exhaust Emissions from Road Traffic’ by the UK Government’s Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG), it recommended that NEE are immediately recognised as a source of ambient concentrations of airborne particulate matter, even for vehicles with zero exhaust emissions of particles – such as EVs." As ever, there are no easy answers. Everything costs.