These are bad from a local air-quality perspective, but they’re not relevant to climate change.
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bitwolf@lemmy.one 7 months agoThere are also tire and brake emissions that no one talks about.
ebc@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Tires sure, the vehicles all need to get lighter and smaller. EV Hummers just straight up don’t need to exist and are a danger to anyone near a road or parking lot.
Brakes however, are largely used less than in ICE vehicles. Regenerative braking turns much of the kinetic energy that would become heat and brake dust back to electricity (and some heat) instead.
Smaller vehicles will help reduce brake use even more. We need to limit heights, weights and sizes of vehicles since there’s no near term way to eliminate them. Even Texas is raising taxes base on the weight of the vehicle.