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Monday 22 May 2023
The next automotive emissions frontier—is tires
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with global warming — the World Meteorological Society just announced “we are more likely than not” to breach the 2015 Paris Agreement 1.5-degree-C warming threshold in the next five years — now we have to worry about tires.
Or, more accurately, the tire-wear particles (TWP) created when they grind, at high speed, against pavement. And, circling back to that climate-change scare, this tires-as-killer-pollutants scenario is made all the disturbing because EVs — and the incredibly heavy batteries that power them — produce a lot more TWP than conventional cars.
Read the whole story on driving.ca