So punchline, probably a good idea to electrify all the cars yeah?
It's annoying though that EV's need that extra Darth Vader on wheels sound to warn pedestrians, I'd prefer them to be as quiet as possible.
But I'll take it if diesels and two-strokes will die in a fire
We don't all live in the city.
I can’t think of a single house in my sisters village without parking. The village hall also has a carpark with two 7kW chargers.
Yeah that seems to be the general problem here. Electric car champions and city dwellers living in a bubble.
Of the three Villages I know well (my sisters, the one I lived in until moving to a larger 8000 person town, and the one with the primary school) I can’t think of any
Likewise the tiny hamlets I drove through on the way to school didn’t have people parking on the road, there’s simply no room. You occasionally get delivery vehicles stop and it causes chaos.
Different to cities in that there isn't remotely the public transport infrastructure to support getting rid of cars, or the private facility to support electric overnight charging for the longer distance car-commuting etc that isn't generally needed if you live in cities.
Things are improving with technological advance but - again - not everybody can afford those advances and the latest models.
It's a completely different lifestyle living in those sorts of places in some respects.
Even including your towns the vast majority of houses have off street parking, at least according the the rac
You have a very niche issue.
1) storing car on public land at home and office
2) driving excessively long mileage each day
3) having a small capacity car
This is a tiny number of people.
That's still leaves millions (?) of households with on street parking.
Most commuters outside cities get on quite ok with normal cars - because they have to - and a third of them is hardly "niche".
You’re combining. My mother doesn’t have off street parking as she lives in a town. She’s one of the 30%
If she had a typical ev she’d have to charge it once a month.
You’re talking the 30% without off street parking and have high mileage (same needing more than one charge a week).
You can probably get away with that in most cases with on-street parking with a mix of commercial chargers and work if you're lucky.
That "probably" is the point. Your average normal car user (especially in financially challenged times) fighting for a car space on their street is not motivated to take on that higher risk at higher cost in a less competitive market to keep the equivalent of HN demographics happy.
Europe has quite a few cities where traffic is increasingly discouraged from going to the inner cities. Cities like Paris and London are much transformed from what they used to be and it shows in the health statistics.
It's not just the particulates but also nitrous oxides (nox) produced by combustion engines. Nox is correlated with lots of health issues. Take it away and you see lower rates of chronic lung issues, cancer, development issues with kids, etc.
But yes, tires are also an issue. But a fairly minor one to anything coming out of a combustion engine.
Mass transit indeed is nice in big cities. Removes the need for taking the car.
No shit Sherlock.
During the 90s "Fat is evil" craze, all yogurt was replaced with "Fat free" yogurt that had 100 extra calories worth of sugar.
The yogurt aisle in the US is still primarily made up of this garbage product category which exists based on utter falsehoods pushed by the sugar industry. 30 years later and we are still constrained by what ignorant fad chasers in the 90s did.
I guess they mean total non-exhaust particulates.
Regen braking means significantly less brake dust, especially at city speeds and with blended braking.
> Although…rail might solve those?
Trains still have brakes. Some can regen brake but because they usually don’t have batteries they need the rail or overhead gantry to support inputs.
But on a passenger-mile basis, I expect an electric train produces essentially no particulates compared to a car, even a light rail on tyres. I do not however have numbers.
It's much less wear and tear than friction brakes.
https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/subway-air-pollution-dispro...
But I expect it's much better in open-air rail systems.
For all that I did not care for them originally this is probably something full-height platform screen doors help with, assuming the trains themselves are also filtered that would keep the pollutants clear of drivers and users, although it does not exactly resolve the question of managing their presence in the tunnels themselves (and track / tunnel maintenance personnel should probably already be wearing respirators if not full breathing apparatus), and I could see things get pretty dire in case of breakdowns.
In some areas of London the ULEZ has been so successful that the measured NOx is now coming mostly from gas boilers used for heating, probably mostly old large commerical units.
So shifting from gas boilers to heat pumps and from gas ovens and stoves to electric/indusction is also beneficial.
So yeah.
That said not clear to me about PM2.5 is I've never seen anything legit seeming that tries to characterize the harm based on the type/source. Though it seems agreed diesel is especially bad.