Pollution Because of Electric Vehicles: How Bad Are They for Air Quality?

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The undiscovered truth about pollution from tyres

Last week we discovered through discussing the BBC news article about car tyre and brake dust that tyres affect air quality significantly because of particulate matter and account for up to 30% of microplastics in our rivers and sea. The crazy thing is that tyres are completely unregulated against a backdrop of regulation for tailpipe emissions (see here unece report). It turns out they have very little natural rubber left in them and have some pretty nasty carcinogenic oil derivatives. The p…