L4sBotMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoIn China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Carswww.washingtonpost.commessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1636file-text
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minus-square@witten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-210 months ago[Comment content deleted by author because apparently I was spouting lies!]
minus-squareFunderpants linkfedilinkEnglish42•10 months agoThis brake dust problem is not true. Just another in a line of deceiving , sounds right but isn’t, attacks on EVs from the fossil fuel industry and their allies. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmorris/2022/02/05/electric-cars-are-as-green-as-you-think-and-dont-produce-more-polluting-particles/?sh=528dfb522811
minus-squareDark ArclinkfedilinkEnglish12•10 months agoThere is the tire problem, but 🤷♂️ That’s more of a “Americans want to buy giant things” problem, and the battery designs that are seemingly just around the corner are lighter https://news.yahoo.com/nasa-incredible-solid-state-battery-130000645.html
minus-square@witten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months agoTIL!! I was snookered. Thanks so much for sharing this.
minus-square@3laws@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish26•edit-210 months agoElectric cars use their brakes tremendously less than ICE ones.
minus-square@redcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkEnglish17•10 months agoI imagine electric cars would generate less brake dust due to their use of regenerative braking.
[Comment content deleted by author because apparently I was spouting lies!]
This brake dust problem is not true. Just another in a line of deceiving , sounds right but isn’t, attacks on EVs from the fossil fuel industry and their allies. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmorris/2022/02/05/electric-cars-are-as-green-as-you-think-and-dont-produce-more-polluting-particles/?sh=528dfb522811
There is the tire problem, but 🤷♂️ That’s more of a “Americans want to buy giant things” problem, and the battery designs that are seemingly just around the corner are lighter
https://news.yahoo.com/nasa-incredible-solid-state-battery-130000645.html
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TIL!! I was snookered. Thanks so much for sharing this.
We all get snookered sometimes.
Electric cars use their brakes tremendously less than ICE ones.
I imagine electric cars would generate less brake dust due to their use of regenerative braking.