Comment on How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment

• Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s a list of a bunch of trucks compared to a midsized SUV, so you’re kind of proving yourself wrong. Cars are split into weight classes, so a comparison that doesn’t acknowledge that isn’t very useful. A EV Sedan is on average much heavier than an ICE sedan.

  No one’s saying ICE vehicles are better for the environment than EVs

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  • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Those are the most sold vehicles in the US, when you have heavy EV’s in the top slots you can say that heavy ev’s are a problem… until then it’s what you are buying is causing the problem.

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    • MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Just because something isn’t the biggest problem doesn’t mean it’s not a problem worth talking about.

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      • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I agree entirely, but the title of this post suggests that EVs are the problem, but actually it’s heavy vehicles.

        Additionally when we say “problem”, particulate pollution from vehicles is 99.9% a diesel problem, and 0.1% a tire problem. (Not actual statistics but let me know how wrong I am with the actual stat)

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No one’s saying ICE vehicles are better for the environment than EVs

    I think it’s possible for a diesel vehicle running on 100% biodiesel made from waste oil to be. The problem there is that there isn’t enough of that sort of fuel to go around as long as cities keep getting designed to keep people car-dependent.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Trucks are a whole other issue into themselves, though. Not just the tire wear, but their terrible fuel economy.

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• Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  7,000 lbs, fucking hell. Who needs such a massive vehicle??

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fragile egoes

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  • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well there are contractors who need to tow heavy machinery around, so about 0.01% of the people that buy them need them.

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• englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wow, that’s an impressive list of amateur tanks. Do they also sell real cars in the US? (Rhetorical question)

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• JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Jesus christ that is appaling. What stupid fucking vehicles.

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