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Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by chrisseaton on Sunday October 06, 2019 @12:33PM (#21173030)
> This is utter nonsense. Electric vehicles have no direct emissions, including no direct emissions of fine dust.

Have you ever changed a tire on Tesla because it was worn down? Where do you think the rubber in the old tire went when it was worn down? Emitted into the environment, that’s where.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by avar on Sunday October 06, 2019 @02:01PM (#21173661)
The GP is obviously wrong about EVs emitting no fine dust, see my sibling comment, but we're talking about fine dust, i.e. PM10 dust.

The study my comment links to notes that only 0.1-10% (depending on conditions) of tire wear meets that criteria, the rest are all more coarse particles.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by ecpottinger on Sunday October 06, 2019 @03:48PM (#21174598)
Have you measure the gas you burnt between changing those tires. You burnt and put in the air hundreds of times the weight of those tires in gases.
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Re:Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car s... by chrisseaton on Sunday October 06, 2019 @03:53PM (#21174637)
You’re saying the petrol emissions are worse than other emissions. But the comment I was replying to said there were no other emissions at all.
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