EV trucks should fix the issue when it comes to brakes. They can mostly regenerate kinetic energy back into charge in the batteries.
Request to all:
More posts about reducing these particulates (from tire and brake wear) please.
https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/audi-urba...
Internal combustion cars do filter a lot of the ambient air already - a 2.0l engine at 2500RPM filters 150m3 of air per hour - that's as much as a small air purifier. It's just that it takes all this clean air and uses it for combustion, thus putting in more dirt than it filtered out.
Also, I'm wondering about tires which pollute less. Both in their production and usage.
To reduce particulates during use, I'm guessing tires will need to be tougher, less grippy. So might require better active suspension and braking systems to maintain current comfort and safety standards.
Even better: in terms of particulates, tire and brake wear creates much more nowadays thanks to particulate filters on exhausts.
That being said local air quality measurements generally don't follow. The air around highways has an increased amount of PMs, but not by a significant amount.
The main difference in favour of EVs is the NOx emissions - diesel trucks produce a lot of that.