Tyre dust, break dust, there are other forms of pollution we need to eradicate / reduce.
How is it off ICE? It's slowly moving in the right direction, but very slowly indeed. New ICE will be produced and sold even in Europe for another 10 years and afterwards they have a long lifetime.
My fathers generation was, most people were very concerned at the idea of there being no more ICE vehicles on the road, as if something important was being taken away from them from a cultural standpoint.
Should not occur in EVs because braking is not necessary.
> Tyre dust
Fine. In cities this is one of the easiest problems to solve, since most of it is washed out into drainage pipes and the waste water can be effectively filtered (although this is not done in most places yet).
Fortunately I don't live in a city anymore so I don't have to put up with these rules.
Someone needs to develop tyres that are made of healthier materials.
The recuperation is pretty strong and there is absolutely no need to ever break inside a city, except in rare emergency situations.
Good point. We certainly have the technology. Currently tyres are half natural rubber and half plastic. They could be made 100% rubber, perhaps with some drawbacks. Maybe an engineer can comment on that, I would be very interested to know why exactly the non natural rubber is needed.
I know that Continental has a research project to make the natural rubber out of dandelion. But even those tyres still have 50% plastic rubber.
If it's a dandelion plantation it can be done in central Europe, for example.