EVs produce almost no brake dust.
Someone needs to develop tyres that are made of healthier materials.
Someone needs to develop tyres that are made of healthier materials.
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.
The recuperation is pretty strong and there is absolutely no need to ever break inside a city, except in rare emergency situations.