> with their increased weight and powerful torque, they produce a lot more tyre pollution than ICE vehicles.
This has been shown not to be true in a number of studies.
This has been shown not to be true in a number of studies.
EVs do generate lower brake particulate matter, by virtue of not using them as much (otherwise they'd also be prone to generating more in a (faulty) per-engagement direct comparison).
Could you link these studies?
Every study I've seen from people pushing on this uses very old information about tires, proving there's a problem really requires updated work taking these things into consideration.
(and have the tire companies been conspiring to make tires disposable?)
The complexity comes from things like sidewall stiffness (controls available grip near the lateral limit of traction, must be designed for vehicle mass), suspension geometry (tire camber affects maximum grip), tire width (affects contact patch size relative to mass of the vehicle, tire pressure, camber, and sidewall stiffness), and suspension spring rate and dampening (wheel hop, changing camber angle from body roll).
What? Was this written by AI?
Since F=ma and F_n is 9.8 N/kg due to gravity, F_f = μ * 9.81 * m and a = F/m = μ * 9.81 * m / m, and finally a = μ * 9.81 m/s^2.
At the very least, these tires are subject to higher forces due to the heavier weights of EVs. Intuitively, consistently applying higher friction forces to an object would cause higher wear.
I’m replacing earlier given poor snow and rain performance. They can have em back when my lease is up.
It’s much worse, it actually scales quartically with weight.