What is that supposed to mean? The total is 175%? Sorry, but this article reads like a collection of stupid statements. Electric cars are heavier? Than what? A car weighs what it weighs. I'm betting an Escalade weighs more that most any electric car.
An Escalade Hybrid weighs more than a Escalade non-hybrid. Better fuel mileage yes.
Remember E=MC^2. A simple fact which cannot be ignored.
Yes, an Escalade weighs more than an EV, but no ICE vehicle has to spend extra energy moving several hundred pounds of battery around. EVs, by there very nature, have to do more work moving that battery...meaning there is more energy consumption per mile traveled.
And then you have to take into account the fact that even new, a battery is never 100% efficient....you never get all the energy out of a battery that you have to put in it....and batteries degrade over time and the # of charge-discharge cycles, meaning that as the battery goes through its’ life cycle, it takes more and more energy to drive the same number of miles.
It’s very basic....battery economics will never overcome battery physics.
I agree. This article makes no sense. A Tesla model S weighs 4600 pounds, about the same as other cars that size, and if it uses regenerative breaks it should use less break pads as well.
The whole article is hokey. I almost wonder if it was written to sucker people into citing it.
If you add up all the particulate matter produced by operating a car, some of it comes out of the tailpipe and some of it comes from the brake pads abrading, some of it comes from the tires abrading, some of it comes from the road abrading.
Because an electric car weighs more that a conventional car, the electric car will produce more particulate from the brake pads, tires, and road(90%) than a conventional car(85%).
The particulate from brake pads, tire and the road are course and we worry more about the very fine particulates coming out of the tailpipe because it can get way down into your lungs. It can also get dispersed into the atmosphere and reflect sunlight; which can cause global cooling. The fine particulates can also be transported to the poles and fall on the ice, making the ice absorb more sunlight, causing the ice to melt faster, and flood out all the rich people in Miami Beach.
The particulate from brake pads, tires and the road mix with the crankcase oil on the road and when it showers, its like driving on oily ball bearings, until it rains enough to wash it off the road into the bar ditch, creek, river, and ocean, and the filter feeders like oysters and shrimp eat it.