Regenerative braking relies on friction -- between the road and tyre. Basic physics (Newton's first law of motion) means that some force must act on the vehicle for any form of acceleration/deceleration/cornering to occur. These forces are (ultimately) applied to the point(s) of contact between the vehicle and its surroundings (i.e. between the tyres and the road) both the tyres and road surface experience wear and tiny particles of rubber, bitumen etc. are scrubbed off these surfaces and released into the atmosphere. This is the particulate pollution from all road vehicles. Even countering the force of gravity while climbing or decending a hill causes particulates. The reason there is a difference between EVs and ICEVs is because (generally -- and I accept there are exceptions) EV are heavier and so have more mass to accelerate, resulting in increased wear/particulates. A study I cited on one of Phil's other forums at least suggests that particulates from EVs are at least as bad and probably worse than those from comparable ICEVs.
As a car should last at least 20 years how long do you think i have left to live,id be over 80 for second car.Yes, EVs are better for particulates. They do still generate tyre and road dust, but much less from the brakes and, it goes without saying, none from the exhaust pipe! There is an argument that EVs are a bit heavier and so generate more tyre dust when braking, which is widely debated and may be true, but the thing about particulates (unlike greenhouse gases) is that it matters where you generate them, because they don't generally travel very far. EVs generate no particulates at all when they're stationary waiting for the lights and almost none in slow-moving traffic around houses, schools, city centres. If the weight difference should turn out to be enough to offset the tailpipe emissions overall, it will at least be happening chiefly on fast, out-of-town roads where it is much less harmful.
Almost every argument against electric vehicles from an environmental point of view, it seems to me, goes something like this: "But EVs still have problem X", whether problem X is "they still cause CO2 emissions" or "they take energy to manufacture" or "they eventually wear out and have to be recycled" or "some of their materials need to be dug out of the ground" or "they still generate particulates" or whatever. And yes, amazingly, EVs are not perfect, angelic beings which solve all the world's problems! But they are so much better than internal combustion vehicles on almost all of these 'problem Xs' that it would be tragic for people to write them off just because they aren't perfect.
There are good reasons why they're not right for everybody yet. They're more expensive, for a year or two, anyway. If you live in a city with no off-street parking they can be much harder to charge. If you regularly drive more than 200 miles without stopping, they are less convenient. You can't get them in every form factor yet. And if you have a perfectly good car at present, of course, you shouldn't throw it away!
But if you're buying a new (or newish car), I'd definitely recommend thinking seriously about an electric one if you can afford it. They're great fun, and you can start learning about the future. Because if your next car isn't electric, I bet you that the one after that almost certainly will be!
Typical alarmist -- all rhetoric and no real science. The IPCC have established correlation between global warming and atmospheric CO2 concentration but they haven't established causality. BTW, over 90% of those IPCC 'climate scientists' aren't actually climate scientists and they even count administrators in their number; 'up-credentialing' them for the purpose of their agenda. A lot of people have a lot of money riding on persuading everyone that anthropogenic climate change is real. Anyone who opposes this has a hard job getting funding these days and is likely ridiculed and/or their work repressed. It's always been that way, just look what happened to Gallileo, Newton, Darwin, et al. https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/global-warming-follow-money-henry-payne/
ISTR we've already had this conversation over on WC, so I guess that you just don't see eye-to-eye with the Institute of Engineering and Technology. (https://eandt.theiet.org/content/ar...ic-cars-could-be-worse-than-from-diesel-ones/) (and, yes, the article does assume zero emissions from EV brake wear!)
It's worth noting that Prof Harrison's update was mainly to clarify that a criticism originally levelled at the source document wasn't valid. A claim was made that the conclusions were invalid because EVs use regenerative braking. However, Prof Harrison pointed out that the original authors had conservatively estimated zero emissions from brake wear. The "additional complexity" arises because some EVs are lighter than some ICEVs. For example, someone switching from an ICEV to an equivalent EV would likely result in increased particulates while downsizing from a large ICEV to a 'city-size' EV would likely result in a reduction of particulates.
But battery energy density is also increasing all the time. Maybe we should revisit it in 10 years and see how the landscape looks then!
insideevs.com
Hopefully, these batteries will get us a little closer to hydrocarbon-esque energy densities and 1,500 miles is more than anyone will want to drive in a day. Hopefully, they also don't have the same issue as lithium-based batteries, like the ones in the EV that Richard Hammond crashed a couple of years ago that kept reigniting for days after the fire brigade put out the original fire.British engineer and former Royal Navy officer Trevor Jackson, signed a multi-million-pound deal
to start manufacturing the device on a large scale in the UK.
Father-of-eight invents an electric car battery
British engineer and former Royal Navy officer Trevor Jackson, signed a multi-million-pound deal to start manufacturing the battery on a large scale in the UK.www.dailymail.co.uk
On the subject of EV longevity,here's Tesla's doing half a million miles...
How Does A Tesla Hold Up Over Nearly Half A Million Miles?
Some say Tesla batteries will likely outlast the cars themselves, though that's not always the case. Nonetheless, many Teslas have endured the test of time.
Keep the Beemer. Let them sort the gremlins out before you shell out. There’s every chance there will be a new kid on the block by then. EV’s would be so yesterday.