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I love how everyone becomes an electrical engineer and environmentalist in these threads. Moonlighting from former hobbies and careers, I'm sure. I guess if EV's actually and finally inspire the everyday Joe to "care" about the environment, that's a good thing, right? Or, at least it looks and feels good in their newfound, personal crusade against another thing they don't like?
The writeup on "tire dust" is already tired and old and lacks context. Not that it isn't important and that there isn't some factual data. Pick a different hill to die on for environmental reasons, though. Be sure to account for the full lifecycle of oil production including exploration, drilling, fracking, spills, refinery emissions. Make sure to add in ICV idle time to defrost windows and warm interiors, and subtract the energy loss from heat, driveline friction, and noise.
Or, be like me. I don't give $0.02 about how my EV impacts the environment right now. Just like I didn't have a little greta-meltdown before I bought my V8 Camaro. EV's are <1% of cars on American roads. I didn't consult a study about tire dust before I bought mine. These distractions are more noise put up by politically motivated individuals, and mostly people screeching on car forums. And there's so much good data about the environmental impact of EV's. Interesting that they cherry-pick one little study, don't you think?
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