Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhDMar 21, 2024

Electric cars are not actually zero-emission vehicles. “Even if all our vehicles eventually become powered by electricity instead of fossil fuels, we will still have harmful pollution from vehicles because of tyre wear.”

It is important to reduce the amount we drive, not just swap in "green" technologies for our existing habits. EVs take enormous resources to produce, electricity may not always be green, tires release pollution, and people are still killed in crashes.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/health-impact-tyre-particles-increasing-concern-air-pollution

Health impact of tyre particles causing ‘increasing concern’, say scientists

Far more tiny particles now come from tyres than are emitted from exhausts but new tyre designs may help

The Guardian
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@mbonsma I love my EV

I try to drive as little as possible. I take the train to & from work. I walk downtown. When I do drive, I try to carpool.

Not everyone, especially in the rural US, has the same opportunities and privileges. But collectively as a society we have to end our addiction to cars. We need pedestrian and transit friendly infrastructure.

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