Do you have hard numbers on the tire particle claim?
We have anecdotes of Tesla owners saying they go through tires more often. But I’ve also heard car fleet owners with both EVs and ICE saying they see no difference between them.
So I’m inclined to think this is entirely dependent on the specific EV. You can get an EV without significantly more weight than an equivalent ICE, and you can drive them in ECO mode where the torque curve is extremely gentle. I don’t see any reason why you’d have more tire particles in that scenario.
I think there are pathways to have less tire wear on EVs than with today’s ICE vehicles. Batteries with higher energy density would obviously help, but I think there are things you could do with the accurate control you have over the torque on the wheels, or making true all wheel drive with torque vectoring more common.
We have anecdotes of Tesla owners saying they go through tires more often. But I’ve also heard car fleet owners with both EVs and ICE saying they see no difference between them.
So I’m inclined to think this is entirely dependent on the specific EV. You can get an EV without significantly more weight than an equivalent ICE, and you can drive them in ECO mode where the torque curve is extremely gentle. I don’t see any reason why you’d have more tire particles in that scenario.
I think there are pathways to have less tire wear on EVs than with today’s ICE vehicles. Batteries with higher energy density would obviously help, but I think there are things you could do with the accurate control you have over the torque on the wheels, or making true all wheel drive with torque vectoring more common.