Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germany for the first time: Around 4% of the particulate matter consists of plastic. Around two-thirds of this comes from tire abrasion.
Can anyone remind me, are heavy car batteries good or bad for tire wear?
It worse than that, electric cars have really fast tire wear because electric engines have so much more powerful initial acceleration
“high torque and high tare weight are all good because we removed all emissions!”
the humble mass production tyre: