EVe are heavy for their size
4 or 5 extra sets of tires. Along with the cost of replacement, time lost, inconvenience, there’s the environmental impact:
We need about five gallons of oil to produce the synthetic rubbers required for a single tire. The whole tire manufacturing process that follows requires two additional gallons of oil. The manufacturing process uses it to fuel the energy required to prepare the materials and assemble the whole tire.
Bigger ones such as truck tires require, even more, averaging 22 gallons of oil. The tire industry often uses gasoline, the production of which also requires oil. For every barrel of oil (42 gallons), they can produce about 19 gallons of gasoline.
Source:
https://blog.tiremart.com/how-much-oil-make-one-car-tire/
The batteries are heavy and the motors provide lots of torque at all speeds.
“To some extent, running through tires quickly may offset the reduction of damaging emissions that EVs offer. Some studies have shown that tires actually have more particle pollution than exhaust, 2,000 times as much.”
Electric cars are meant to be SHOWN to others during Virtue Signalling sessions, not DRIVEN, as the cars aren’t designed for that.
Hopefully he learns his lesson.
Where do these freaks come from?
look for 600-treadwear tires
$1,500 is chump change.
Wait till he finds out he’ll have to pay $25,000 for a battery replacement someday soon. Probably more than that since it’s a Mercedes.
All the larger Mercedes eat tires, pads and rotors. Especially if you have the active lane keeping on.
Should have read Dr Franklin: “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
I have some advice for those of you who have bought in to the “Green New Deal” scam: EMBRACE THE SUCK!
This will go down in America history as the second most embarrassing scam after the Democrat Cheat of 2020!
AFAIAC, those Bozos who believe in the Glolbull Warming Chicken Little fallacy need to shuffle off the stage!
They need to get out of the way of those of us who understand and use Reason, Logic and Common Sense to guide our lives and our politics.
WE WILL LEAD! Y’ALL FOLLOW! AND AMERICA WILL DO JUST FINE!
Save the earth!! Buy tires.
Just for curiosity sake can someone tell me what the average weight of one of thee cars is. Just wondering...Thanks
Just get EV rated tires.
I had the same problem, wore out 64,000-mile tires in 17,000.
Replaced them with something made for EVs, no problem.
It’s a good thing tires are made out of...uh...some kind of green stuff..
No problem. Just burn them to keep warm. The very definition of renewable energy.
Used car. Dealer swapped a higher-mileage set from another car onto it so he could put the lo-mileage tires onto an more favored buyer’s car. Or a family member’s. Or his own. A traditional shyster dealer practice that was old before WW2.