Electric cars use their brakes humongously less than ICE ones.
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witten@lemmy.world 10 months agoThat all sounds wonderful, but don’t forget that brake dust accounts for even more pollution than tailpipe emissions in many locations. And as electric cars are heavier, they generate more brake dust than their combustion counterparts. I’m all for the switch to EVs, personally, but I think even then we’ve still got work to do.
3laws@lemmy.world 10 months ago
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 months ago
I imagine electric cars would generate less brake dust due to their use of regenerative braking.
FunderPants@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This brake dust problem is not true. Just another in a line of deceiving , sounds right but isn’t, attacks on EVs from the fossil fuel industry and their allies. forbes.com/…/electric-cars-are-as-green-as-you-th…
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 10 months ago
There is the tire problem, but 🤷♂️ That’s more of a “Americans want to buy giant things” problem, and the battery designs that are seemingly just around the corner are lighter
news.yahoo.com/nasa-incredible-solid-state-batter…
snowe@programming.dev 10 months ago
I mean… I drive my electric car like I stole it, which I wouldn’t really do with anything except a sports car. So the tire wear is definitely greater than if I did that in an ICE vehicle.
witten@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TIL!! I was snookered. Thanks so much for sharing this.