The new study reveals a problem that may grow as electric cars become more and more common over the next several decades. Electric cars, Smith explained, are not truly zero-emission vehicles, so municipalities need to think about strategies to reduce emissions from brake use as well as tailpipes
completely nonsensical. electric cars barely use mechanical brakes if you're using them right. Hell, if you're even a little efficient with your driving you shouldn't have to brake much in a traditional car either (although it will always still be more than with electric regen).
tire wear is the issue for electric cars that isn't necessarily strictly better than gas, and you solve that by hooking several of them together on metal rails with metal wheels or by having an appropriately sized capacity for 90% of your driving. this is, of course, impossible for americans.
You have to remember that american "evs" are all slated to weigh 6,000 pounds or over. They're not like a Nissan leaf or anything. And manufacturers also tune the regen braking way down because Americans are babies and can't figure out how to drive elastically with the pedal and regen on. This is to say, all the same problems with gas cars are essentially copied into evs.
Emissions over the lifetime of the vehicle normally from ICE are frontloaded to rare earth metal mining for enormous batteries and
heavier weights generate more tire wear and require larger tires that are also more wasteful to manufacture. It's a continuing example of the failures of individual auto based transport.
It's a continuing example of the failures of individual auto based transport.
i'm not gonna stand up for cars as a primary solution for transit, but you kinda undermined yourself if this is your thesis since most of those issues are specific to american bullshit.
completely nonsensical. electric cars barely use mechanical brakes if you're using them right. Hell, if you're even a little efficient with your driving you shouldn't have to brake much in a traditional car either (although it will always still be more than with electric regen).
Well I'm sure it all being dependent on millions of individuals doing the right thing always will, despite all the proof to the contrary, work out this time
fortunately for this issue in particular, having regen settings "correct" by default from the factory seems to work everywhere except
i'd prefer trains or a fifteen five minute city because my knees aren't going to get better, but if the best yankees can do is misconfigured EVs that's still an improvement for local air quality and noise pollution.
completely nonsensical. electric cars barely use mechanical brakes if you're using them right. Hell, if you're even a little efficient with your driving you shouldn't have to brake much in a traditional car either (although it will always still be more than with electric regen).
tire wear is the issue for electric cars that isn't necessarily strictly better than gas, and you solve that by hooking several of them together on metal rails with metal wheels or by having an appropriately sized capacity for 90% of your driving. this is, of course, impossible for americans.
You have to remember that american "evs" are all slated to weigh 6,000 pounds or over. They're not like a Nissan leaf or anything. And manufacturers also tune the regen braking way down because Americans are babies and can't figure out how to drive elastically with the pedal and regen on. This is to say, all the same problems with gas cars are essentially copied into evs.
Emissions over the lifetime of the vehicle normally from ICE are frontloaded to rare earth metal mining for enormous batteries and heavier weights generate more tire wear and require larger tires that are also more wasteful to manufacture. It's a continuing example of the failures of individual auto based transport.
i'm not gonna stand up for cars as a primary solution for transit, but you kinda undermined yourself if this is your thesis since most of those issues are specific to american bullshit.
Well I'm sure it all being dependent on millions of individuals doing the right thing always will, despite all the proof to the contrary, work out this time
fortunately for this issue in particular, having regen settings "correct" by default from the factory seems to work everywhere except
i'd prefer trains or a
fifteenfive minute city because my knees aren't going to get better, but if the best yankees can do is misconfigured EVs that's still an improvement for local air quality and noise pollution.That still doesn't stop people from doing the quarter mile for every intersection, speaking from experience.