[chupasaurus]

The study is about NOx levels which have nothing to do with tires or brakes.

[davidw]

Ok, but tire pollution is still a problem:

https://grist.org/transportation/electric-vehicles-are-a-cli...

https://caltrout.org/news/did-you-know-your-cars-tires-could...

[gruturo]

True. But there are 2 ways to read this:

1: Yes, let's stick with ICE cars and die of preventable illnesses because EVs are only a massive improvement, rather than absolute perfection

2: Hey let's take this massive improvement and enjoy enormously cleaner air

I meet way too many people from group 1 unfortunately.

[swsieber]

I mean, it kind of is. But I'd say the framing is about general air pollution, and they happen to use NOx levels as proxy indicator. So from that perspective, I think it is important to note that there are other types of pollution that go up with electric cars.