[HN Gopher] EVs Are Sending Toxic Tire Particles into the Water,...
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       EVs Are Sending Toxic Tire Particles into the Water, Soil, and Air
        
       Author : chewz
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2023-07-22 21:16 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
        
       | EA-3167 wrote:
       | ... As are ICE vehicles. Tire rubber is one of the major sources
       | of microplastics after all, or did people think it just vanished?
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       | > New EV models tend to be heavier and quicker--generating more
       | particulates and deepening the danger.
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       | Compared to what? I'm pretty sure a Nissan Leaf has nothing on an
       | ICE escalade.
        
         | MBCook wrote:
         | The heavier the vehicle, the more particles.
         | 
         | Yeah. EVs are much worse, until we find some magical battery
         | breakthrough or realize not everyone needs 350 mile range.
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         | That said I'll take worse tire emissions over better tire
         | emissions plus CO2 + CO + NO2 + whatever else + all the
         | emissions creating/moving gas.
         | 
         | You want lower EV tire emissions? Cut down own the need to
         | drive.
        
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