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Re:Waymo doubles service area in Phoenix Metro by shiftpgdn on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:26PM (#35834730)
I feel like this is a nonsense study. They used a 2013 study that measured gas cars and then just extrapolated that out based on weight for EVs and did nothing to account for regenerative breaking, specialty EV tires, etc. Also the numbers are from the Simons 2013 study seem to be dubious as well.

Anyone who has been to Oslo understands EVs are a huge benefit for urban air quality.

Re:Waymo doubles service area in Phoenix Metro by xnx on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:58PM (#35835087)
On top of that, the Waymo vehicles are much more efficient drivers: no rapid acceleration, no hard braking, lower top speed, etc.