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looks like they're just assuming electric vehicles behave like light trucks because they're heavier than most passenger vehicles and therefore attribute 67% more emissions due to brake wear and don't account for regenerative breaking. (They estimate 2% more emissions from tire wear than lighter vehicles).

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Yeah, extrapolating on the brake thing seems especially hinky and ill-informed. If you want to have a discussion about brakepad emissions from a Tesla, you should probably be working from real data about how often the brakes are actually applied, or perhaps extrapolate it from service records about mileage numbers on cars when the brake pads are serviced/changed.

I expect Tesla would happily hand you a bunch of this anonymized data since it's likely to paint them in a positive light.

anecdotally, teslas routinely get 100,000 to 200,000 miles on their brake pads because of regenerative braking.

There are ways to get brake wear - switch the regen setting to LOW, or do a track day :)

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