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How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That sentence and headline are completely wrong though. Tires already are one of the greatest emitters of particulate matter even with ICE cars in mind, because this is a general car issue and cannot really be directly resolved. An improvement would be less weight. If cars were smaller and consequently lighter, then they'd pollute less. But unfortunately we are still going the opposite direction and cars are still getting fatter and fatter, just like the people driving them.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

tires need to be made of non-toxic materials. like mushroom/algae, etc.

then brake dust is next.

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Brake dust is pretty well-mitigated by EVs too, on account of regenerative breaking.