Comedian Joe Rogan was clearly surprised to learn that electric cars can have a bigger negative impact on the environment than gas-powered cars.
Rogan, who said he actually went to the recording session in an electric car, said in the episode: 2119 In the book he just read, The Joe Rogan Experience, he says that the environmental impact of electric cars is “actually worse overall than the environmental impact of traditional internal combustion engines.” Ta.
“Is that true? Because it sounds crazy,” he added.
The podcaster mentioned a resurfaced study that was reported. wall street journal Published by Emission Analytics. 2022.
“Electric vehicles emit more toxic particles into the atmosphere than gasoline-powered vehicles, harming the environment,” Logan read from the article. new york post. “Today, most vehicle-related pollution comes from tire wear. Oh, and heavy vehicles are wearing lightweight tires made from synthetic rubber made from crude oil and other fillers and additives. “Tires deteriorate and release harmful chemicals into the air,” Logan continued. .
As Logan discovered in real time, the study concluded that tailpipe emissions were not the main source of pollution. Rather, tire wear emissions are actually the leading cause of auto pollution, 1,850 times more than exhaust gases.
“Newer cars have much lower tailpipe particulate emissions,” the study says, noting that vehicle mass and aggressive driving increase particulate emissions produced by cars. Electric cars are 30% heavier than gasoline cars, so their tires and brakes wear out faster. This, combined with increased torque, can cause problems with EV pollution rates.
Using the example of a 0.5-ton battery for an electric vehicle, the study pointed out that the weight of the battery alone can produce 400 times more emissions than tailpipe exhaust.
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Logan later said that while cleaning his car, “there was brake dust everywhere.” He also recalled learning years ago that brake dust is a significant pollutant in congested cities.
But “gentle” electric car drivers benefit from regenerative braking, which “more than offsets the tire wear emissions from the additional weight of the vehicle,” resulting in less tire wear than poorly driven gasoline cars. can be kept low. Added research.
Guest James Lindsay pointed out another major environmental damage caused by the EV market. The mathematician hypothesized that there is a fairly large difference between sales of new and used electric cars.
“Besides getting the materials to make batteries, batteries can’t be reused. There’s no used EV market and no one wants to buy a used car. And you have to replace the battery when it dies. That’s a tough thing to do.”
A report from early 2024 appears to confirm Lindsay’s hypothesis, at least in the European Union.
In Germany, which owns the largest number of electric vehicles in Europe, as of November 2023, used EVs account for only 1.58% of new owner registrations. This was an increase higher than the 1.23% increase in 2022.
The group in the Italian and Spanish markets reportedly has a registration rate of less than 1% for used EVs.
Factors contributing to the slump in sales of used EVs include high purchase prices, a lack of charging stations, and consumers’ concerns about the range of plug-in cars.
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