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Re:Electric car drivers in the UK must pay tax from 2025 by jablala on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:13PM (#33642121)
Considering such a large amount of a cars pollution comes from tyres and break dust it's true.
Re:Electric car drivers in the UK must pay tax from 2025 by timbit42 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:57PM (#33643794)
CO2 is our largest concern at the moment. Pollution from brake dust and tire dust isn't as important even if it's a large amount.
Re:Electric car drivers in the UK must pay tax from 2025 by extraduder_ire on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:00PM (#33647812)
Break dust is way less of an issue with electric cars anyway, if they have regen-braking. Don't know how that'd be taxed proportionally though.

I'm also living in a country where road tax is priced per CO2 emission rating (used to be by displacement pre-2006), and am sad nobody's selling kits to capture some or all of the CO2 emissions from exhaust.

Re:Electric car drivers in the UK must pay tax from 2025 by aldonius on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:22PM (#33650252)
Brake dust is less of an issue, but tyre dust is arguably worse (since EVs are near-unavoidably heavier than ICE equivalents).