Pad size is irrelevant, and smaller pad sizes can actually result in faster release of material.

Regeneration is certainly a benefit, but in my experience with a few different EVs caps out at fairly low levels of braking.

Also, I don't know anyone who's replaced a V8 SUV with an EV. Most of the EV-owning people I know replaced hybrids, generally Priuses.

You may be right, but I'd like to see a source that runs contrary to this instead of pure conjecture:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231016...