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2024-03-15 10:10:08 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4BFC60782E8619324455A61A4894BD7E638B75C0F1B67555F4EF0C8273FFD87B
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This study has been debunked due to major errors It assumes such a high rate of tyre wear that it would lead to a car completely using up all of its tyre rubber within 4000 miles. It does not factor in that EV regenerative braking systems avoid almost all brake emissions https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/running/do-electric-vehicles-produce-more-tyre-and-brake-pollution-than-petrol-and/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-about-electric-vehicles/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36739036/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231020306208
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