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Tire wear right now is worse, because tires contain an anti-oxidant that gets oxidized into a compound that is highly toxic to aquatic life. The work is underway to standardize on a replacement. This time with even more tests.
I wonder if this will be like lead in av-gas. Lol.
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Exactly. EVs are a band-aid, but the true cure is simply viable alternatives to driving .
It's the inverse. Bikes are a temporary 19-th century fix for the lack of easily available personal cars.
The worst thing was the noise. When I lived there I tuned it out, but when I slept for the first night in my new flat it felt like someone lifted a huge rock from my chest.
Cars in cities are a really thing to tolerate from the standpoint of people who bear the cost of them being there, EVs help reducing two of the main issues with cars. Issues like space use remain (housing prices skyrocket while there is a ton of empty space used for storing cars while nobody drives). Who knows, maybe EVs can solve this one too one day.
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I agree there are effects of increased linear acceleration, however I disagree with you because of: On many roads you accelerate and brake less often than you go around corners. These two things are equivalent on tire wear given the forces involved: 1 corner at 50kmh with 50m radius. Accelerating linearly at 0.39g (7 second 0-100kmh) to 77kmh from 0.
I don't think that's neccessarily a disagreement? Both things can be true - if you mostly drive on roads with fast corners, the heavier car will wear out its tyres faster. If you drive on roads with lots of start/stop traffic but not many "at speed" corners then the one that consistently accelerates harder will wear out its tyres quicker.
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I'm 99% sure this is a troll, but I hate to see misinformation go uncorrected. If this isn't a troll, you've been misled by fossil fuel industry propaganda, and I'm sorry. While EVs can be heavier, they often achieve high safety ratings due to their low center of gravity and robust battery protection. Advanced safety features are standard. Studies suggest that EV charging, especially when managed, can help stabilize…
It is not a troll. I was talking about safety for the drivers in the car that collide with the EV. They are less safe with EVs on the road. When we have marginal electricity pricing, and electric cars necessarily being marginal demand, then they will ramp pricing a lot for all users , not just those driving electric cars. This far outweighs the benefit of grid balancing services (which this green revolution has creat…
So is a Model T. But we aren’t all still driving Model Ts, are we? Technology improves, and of course older cars are less safe. There is a weight difference, but it’s no different from that of an SUV vs. a Corolla.
> Efficiency above 80% is clearly worse than below 80%. I drove 30k miles in a Tesla on road trips and saw that consistently.
Depends on the car, but the reason for this is almost solely because you lose regenerative breaking at high SOC. That’s less efficient, but not less efficient than an ICE car, and you only do it on road trips, which don’t happen often.
Anybody who ever driven an EV, would have told that the initial scare about brake dust was pure nonsense. EVs barely use frictional brakes, with regen performing most of the braking action. Frictional brakes only really come into play to slow down from around ~5 mph to a complete stop. And even that can be eliminated by essentially running the motor backwards, at low torque. This mode of braking is sometimes used on…
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> It turns out that BEVs (battery electric vehicles) reduce the amount of brake dust by 83%, according to a new analysis by EIT Urban Mobility (a body of the European Union) and Transport for London. The study looked primarily at London, Milan and Barcelona. > The primary reason for this is the use of regenerative braking, meaning that electric vehicles can slow down without rubbing friction brakes. Other vehicles th…
Cars clean the air because the AC filters capture particles
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So obviously and logically speaking, an ICE car of equivalent weight should have the same tyre wear, and we know that's not true - there are some very heavy ICEs around which still manage to do 50k miles on a single set of tyres without any issue. EVs have instant torque from 0rpm and people use it and that's the main reason. Case in point - we have a Volkswagen e-Up, it barely weighs 1000kg, it's pretty much one of…
I agree there are effects of increased linear acceleration, however I disagree with you because of: On many roads you accelerate and brake less often than you go around corners. These two things are equivalent on tire wear given the forces involved: 1 corner at 50kmh with 50m radius. Accelerating linearly at 0.39g (7 second 0-100kmh) to 77kmh from 0.