We need to go back to horseback riding. It's inevitable.
Or just walk. America was a horse powered nation before the automobile, not a horse riding nation.
Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
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Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
But you rarely have to brake an EV though. I’ve had two EV’s over the last 6 years, and I have to remember to occasionally hit the brakes to keep them from rusting. One pedal driving is just money - saves power and is just much smoother over all than old school breaking. IMO.
I've never driven an EV. How do you approach stop signs and red lights other than braking? Is "engine braking" (regenerative braking?) strong enough to handle that big a fraction of slowing down in city traffic?
The engine can slow down the vehicle at roughly the same rate it can accelerate it. And if you have an EV that has a 3 second 0-60...
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
But you rarely have to brake an EV though. I’ve had two EV’s over the last 6 years, and I have to remember to occasionally hit the brakes to keep them from rusting. One pedal driving is just money - saves power and is just much smoother over all than old school breaking. IMO.
I've never driven an EV. How do you approach stop signs and red lights other than braking? Is "engine braking" (regenerative braking?) strong enough to handle that big a fraction of slowing down in city traffic?
Generally, yes. Usually there are settings for how much regen you want, but the term 1 pedal usually inies a regenerative brake strong enough to stop at stop signs or when exiting freeways.
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#44Electric vehicles are heavier, which means they must spend more brake pads to stop. But they also use regenerative breaking, which reduces pad wear. So I'm not sure if they make it worse or not.
I have a Bolt and the brake pads rarely get used. It's almost all regenerative braking, I would bet it's much better than ICE cars. Tire wear on the other hand... :(
Same here with my Bolt EUV. The only time I use the brakes are when I occasionally misjudge how quickly I’m coming up on a turn and one-pedal braking isn’t slowing me down fast enough; or when I first leave home, the car is fully charged, and one-pedal braking can’t regenerate the battery any further so it won’t brake for me.
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
But you rarely have to brake an EV though. I’ve had two EV’s over the last 6 years, and I have to remember to occasionally hit the brakes to keep them from rusting. One pedal driving is just money - saves power and is just much smoother over all than old school breaking. IMO.
I've never driven an EV. How do you approach stop signs and red lights other than braking? Is "engine braking" (regenerative braking?) strong enough to handle that big a fraction of slowing down in city traffic?
An electric engine running in reverse is a battery charger, so yeah you run it in reverse and you slow down about as fast as you accelerate.
It doesn’t work completely like that obviously for reasons, but it does work like that for gentle accel/decel.
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#46Another day another set of researchers justifying their research which then gets spun as anti-EV FUD.
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a Bolt and the brake pads rarely get used. It's almost all regenerative braking, I would bet it's much better than ICE cars. Tire wear on the other hand... :(
I love the little hand flap that does max regen. Bolt could be a cult classic too bad GM was in such hurry to kill it.
They’ve unkilled it last I heard. I got an email a few months ago from Chevrolet saying they decided to keep making Bolts due to their popularity, and to keep an eye out for the next model in 2024 or 2025 (can’t remember which year).
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
But you rarely have to brake an EV though. I’ve had two EV’s over the last 6 years, and I have to remember to occasionally hit the brakes to keep them from rusting. One pedal driving is just money - saves power and is just much smoother over all than old school breaking. IMO.
I've never driven an EV. How do you approach stop signs and red lights other than braking? Is "engine braking" (regenerative braking?) strong enough to handle that big a fraction of slowing down in city traffic?
I have a Prius hybrid. It has an indicator when the brake pads are used. It's easy to slow down and stop without using the brakes about 95% of the time
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#49This will come from all ground transportation sources, right?
Busses, trains, trams, subways etc.
Probably the heavier the vehicle the more particles are likely to be produced?
Re: Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
#50Another day another set of researchers justifying their research which then gets spun as anti-EV FUD.
Why would that happen? EVs use their brakes much less often. when I read the article it occurred to me that this could eventually used to justify policy that would subsidize EVs more than they are.