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Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by ratsbane on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:14AM (#21171273)
fjfaase, your statement "An electrical car produces almost as much fine dust particles as an internal combustion engine" is very surprising and not at all what I would expect.

Can you cite any sources for that or explain it a bit more?

Aside from particulate matter in exhaust, regenerative braking doesn't produce dust like friction braking does, thus I'd expect electric cars to produce much less dust than ICE vehicles.

Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by madaxe_again on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:30AM (#21171349)
Rubber tyres on asphalt produce a fair bit of very fine particulate matter, and are currently ubiquitous in vehicles - I imagine this is what fjfaase was referring to.

That said, the contribution is tiny - on the order of 2.5% of total roadside PM10.

https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/atmosphere/atmosphere-10-0...