• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The funny thing is, electric cars help with the tire/brake dust and mined materials issue. Regenerative braking reduces the wear on brakes, and electric motors provide smoother power delivery, which reduces tire wear. As for the mined materials, electric cars generally take more material to make, but they are also easier to recycle, and the batteries themselves are able to be recycled in to even better batteries that they were when brand new.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t feel like grabbing the source right now but EVs give off higher amounts of tire dust due to their heavier weight.