Electric vehicles would eliminate a lot of noise pollution too.
As a city dweller there is nothing I long for more than complete electrification of all transport and the death of the ICE.
As a city dweller there is nothing I long for more than complete electrification of all transport and the death of the ICE.
http://www.soliftec.com/NonExhaust%20PMs.pdf (2016) Study highlights:
* A positive relationship exists between vehicle weight and non-exhaust emissions.
* Electric vehicles are 24% heavier than their conventional counterparts.
* Electric vehicle PM emissions are comparable to those of conventional vehicles.
* Non-exhaust sources account for 90% of PM10 and 85% of PM2.5 from traffic.
* Future policy should focus on reducing vehicle weight
Part of this is that we already spent a lot of deliberate effort on reducing emissions from engines. As the study notes:
> Before the introduction of air quality standards, exhaust emissions used to be a major source of PM, especially for diesel cars (Miguel et al., 1998). Since then, PM emission standards for vehicle exhausts have become increasingly strict and now all new diesel passenger cars are fitted with a diesel particulate filter (DPF). Bergmann et al. (2009) found that DPFs are very effective at reducing PM emissions, lowering the emitted mass of PM by 99.3%
The paper says that resuspension is the largest part of non-emissions particulates, so we have lowered brake sources (because regen means less pad wear) and lower emissions, and probably not greater resuspension. Maybe tire wear is higher. Put those together and it seems like electric vehicles should come out ahead, particularly if we're talking about diesel vehicles.
The only solution I suppose is no cars.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7236155/Elec...