Re:Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than ...
by spuz on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:09AM
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Your source doesn't consider non-plug-in hybrids also known as HEVs because zapmap are a company that sell charging services. The number of HEVs in the UK is about twice the the number of PHEVs so the total number of hybrids is still higher than the total number of BEVs. In 2024, 6% of vehicles on the road were hybrid compared with 3.7% fully electric.
https://www.smmt.co.uk/more-than-a-million-evs-on-uk-roads-a...
Re:Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than ...
by pjc50 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:46AM
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I wonder which vehicles that is - is that predominantly the non-pluggable Prius?
Re:Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than ...
by TreeInBuxton on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:56AM
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There is a wide variety, MHEV is quite popular here due to lack of home charging, as many people live in terraces, etc
We have a selection of smaller popular hatchbacks with MHEV available (ie, the Hyundai i20) that I believe were not released in some markets
The leasing culture for "luxury" cars is quite prevalent here too, and many new cars from popular brands such as Land Rover are at minimum MHEV from new nowadays, in order to get fleet emissions down
> As of the end of June 2025, there were 2,450,462 plug-in cars, with over 1,585,000 battery-electric cars and nearly 865,000 PHEVs, registered in the UK.
> There are more fully electric cars than there are plug-in hybrids on UK roads and the gap has been widening. In 2021, fully electric cars accounted for 60% of all plug-in cars but with the increase in options, range and popularity of fully electric cars, and by May 2025 this has increased to 65%.
(That stat does exclude non-pluggable-hybrids, but those are kind of pointless stalling of the transition off petrol)