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I live next to a boulevard, 5th floor. The amount of black stuff that gets onto my balcony every day is absolutely insane. And to think that we are breathing that! I would fully embrace a full conversion for electric vehicle for that alone, this isn't just CO2, this is our air quality in cities.


Keep in mind that electric cars still have tire and break dust. Its not all tail pipes, tho clearly it’d be great to eliminate that.


Due to regenerative breaking, electric vehicles (well at least Teslas) rarely use the breakpads, so less break dust.

Tire dust will still be a problem.


My VW ID.4 has two different breaking modes, one doesn’t use regenerative at all and the other is not nearly as aggressive as Teslas. Probably overall it’ll be less, but I expect variation depending on the manufacturer and consumer preference.




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