A new study led by an international team of scientists highlights tire particles (TPs) as the leading contributor to microplastics and calls for urgent, targeted research to address their unique environmental and health risks.
Accounting for nearly one-third of all microplastics,
But EVs are supposed to solve everything!
Edit for the downvoters: I’m not against EVs as a replacement for ICE, but they’re not an endgame solution. We need to reduce the number of cars, period, whether they’re ICE or not.
Why would you want for electric vehicles to replace Inter City Express trains?
It’s an abomination unto the Lord
-Leviticus 3:10 to Yuma
Nope! Instead, they save car industry profits!
Wonder what environmental impact of trains is. I assume there must be some.
Anything modern human does will have “carbon footprint” as corpos like to say it. But a lot of it is outside of person level control.
Just picking your poison to be less toxic. Still worth it but it ain’t the final solution, just a better one