Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds

Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:22AM (#43059697)

For the weekend trips you could put in an engine with a power splitter

Oh what's this, turns out the ideal car was already invented twenty years ago, it's the Toyota Prius

Casually gets 50 mpg city and highway

Small, lightweight battery

Not a super expensive status symbol

The plugin models use very little gas for the daily commute, but you can always drive it like a pure ice car if you need to flee the country on zero notice

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Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds by fortran77 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:54AM (#43060000)

The Volt was a much better idea. It could be an all electric car—at any speed—for 50 miles or so.

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Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds by rnikander on Saturday February 15, 2025 @12:56PM (#43060534)

Agree, the Volt seemed like a good idea. I don’t know the inside story of GM discontinuing that car. I imagined it was corporate dysfunction.

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Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds by fortran77 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @05:05PM (#43062849)

I owned two of them. They were great. Worked flawlessly.

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Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds by progman32 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:26PM (#43060820)

My first generation bmw i3 is exactly this. Later models got much bigger battery packs.

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Re:Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful Than Exhaust, Study Finds by kjkjadksj on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:16PM (#43060710)

Prius is just doing what a 90s civic did but with more onerous maintenance due to complex powerplant over dead simple 4 banger and manual transmission.

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