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Another reason EVs are NOT the way forward. They’re heavier than ICE cars and so they go through tires significantly faster. I wonder if anyone has done the math on how much of our world is filled with microplastics from car tire treadwear. I imagine it’s astonishing.

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SlippiHUD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The awnser is 78% of all microplastics in the ocean are from tires.

reuters.com/…/rising-microplastics-seas-puts-pres…

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- Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  So what you’re saying is that scientist’s laziness on the development of flying cars is what is going to lead to the downfall of man.
  
  I always knew it…
  
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  - Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60072194
    
    But we have flying cars
    
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Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
its weoght would be dependant on how much of a battery capacity they have as its chunk of weight is just pure battery weight alone. An average model Y weighs in about the same as a large SUV. so if this statement was made in particular to the U.S, it wouldnt change much given how popular SUVs are. if you take away the EVs, the vast majority is just moving back to SUVs.

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- bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I mean, but what of EV SUVs?
  
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  - Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    model y is an EV suv.
    
    the problem basically is that the people driving model 3.the 3 itself is also fairly heavy, but the assumption that if they were going to drive a model 3, the majority would switch back to a lighter sedan when in reality, they bought the model 3 because it was one of the cheaper EV options, and had it not been a cheap EV option, they would have driven a larger hatchback or SUV regardless.
    
    for example I had a coworker who recently got a tesla. what he was driving beforehand was a V70 Volvo hatchback before he sold it to fund the model 3. the hatchback is only a few hundred pounds lighter than the model 3, which effectively isnt a significant amount of weight, given an addition one, or two lighter people would already make up the weight difference alone.
    
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  - Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Idk, but the largest Cybertruck weighs 12 lbs less than an F-150.
    
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