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Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by stavros on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:53PM (#43666539)
With EVs, 100% of particulates are from tires, etc! It's a disaster!

Except, you know, the amount remained the same, we just got rid of the other 98% that used to be there.

Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by aziaziazi on Saturday April 12, 2025 @02:14PM (#43666710)
Well IIRC ev are significantly heavier than ice in average, which has a direct consequence on amount of stress on the tires and brakes pad.
Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by adrianN on Saturday April 12, 2025 @02:17PM (#43666740)
Since EVs are heavier and accelerate better they probably produce more tire dust.
Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by tirant on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:45PM (#43668159)
Not necessarily. EVs have also an almost perfect traction control due to immediate torque control by the electric motor, so it’s very difficult to spin wheels in situations of low traction, which reduces tire wear and emissions.

On ICE cars, it’s much slower with way higher latency due to the mechanical inertias.

Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by MPSFounder on Saturday April 12, 2025 @02:16PM (#43666721)
Just not true. I favor EVs, but it is incredibly misleading to say 98% comes from other sources. In many places, natural gas and coal are still used to generate the electricity needed. That must be accounted for in your life cycle analysis. In fact, once you remove the Musk propaganda, Tesla's EVs are by no way greener (draw a boundary around his other company SpaceX, and the rocket fuel it uses, and you immediately see what I mean. Worse than Exxon I would bet)
Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by adonovan on Saturday April 12, 2025 @02:21PM (#43666768)
True, but even in Wyoming, where you EV is really a coal-powered vehicle, the coal is not burned in the city.
Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by timewizard on Saturday April 12, 2025 @02:31PM (#43666841)
Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by dboreham on Saturday April 12, 2025 @04:11PM (#43667571)
Fun fact: there are no cities in Wyoming.
Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by rascul on Saturday April 12, 2025 @04:19PM (#43667622)
There are a lot of different ways to define "city". Wikipedia list 19 in Wyoming, but I'm not sure what criteria they use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Wyom...

Re:Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a... by sokoloff on Saturday April 12, 2025 @03:23PM (#43667223)
What you linked seems to me to support GP’s text.

What content on that page do you read as refuting those claims?