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Funny how now that electric vehicles are winning, it turns out that, no, it’s tires that are bad and gosh look EVs have more tire wear because they are heavier.
by lowbloodsugar 3y ago
Funny how now that electric vehicles are winning, it turns out that, no, it’s tires that are bad and gosh look EVs have more tire wear because they are heavier. Regular people with regular sized EVs must be taxed more than gas cars!! (But of course not trucks and SUVs)
- hedora 3y agoThe article contains a caveat that tailpipe emissions only recently were reduced below tire emissions, and even then only in some places. Also, EV’s produce much less brake dust, and the article doesn’t compare that decrease to the 20% increase in tire dust. Anyway, this mathematical bound holds in the absolute worst case for EV’s. If tailpipe emissions used to be 51% of the problem and brakes were zero, then switching entirely to EVs would leave us with 60% as much particulate emission as we had before. It’s likely much lower than 60% of course.
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- hackermatic 3y agoI support EVs over gas cars, and small gas cars over SUVs, but any of those will always be worse for the environment (in terms of resource and land use, emissions, and traffic noise) than more mass transit and a built environment that is convenient to get around without cars.