Moving the emissions away from the vehicles , away from city centres and roads to the factories and power stations where they can be controlled would save thousands of lives.
Our children will look at us how we look at people during the industrial revolution. And a gradual change is better than no change at all.
Depressing! But we need lighter vehicles all round, and less travelling in general.
Regenerative braking does not have this problem. Although the tyre problem remain.
No, I did not mistype that.
Yes we need to move towards more sustainable transport (mass transit) and reduce the overall load but EVs don’t hamper this movement.
https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1...
>Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and other institutions who studied Stockholm’s congestion-pricing scheme found that the policy cut air pollution in the city center and reduced childhood asthma cases by nearly 50 percent.
Hybrid gasoline/biogas can be as co2 efficient as diesel if not more with a lot cleaner tail pipe air. Almost zero local emission with 10kw batteries and upwards.