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 As mentioned--we also can't forget that by no means is all that electricity being produced in a sustainable way, and as demand for electricity soars, there isn't always even enough of it being produced, never mind sustainably. 'Make everything in the world electric!' they say, where's it all coming from? (technologies may exist but are not in place..)
May 30, 2024 at 6:02pmWeb