Interesting read of @DrLizaSelley’s paper on non-tailpipe PM emissions. In the abstract it states that brake wear particulates represent at most 55% of non-tailpipe emissions & 21% of total traffic PM. This implies that non- tailpipe emissions represent about 38% of total (cont) traffic PMs. In other words, exhaust emissions from fossil fuel cars represent a whopping 62% of total traffic emissions. So driving an EV immediately reduces traffic PM emissions by 62%; & since EVs have minimal brake pad & disc wear they reduce total traffic emissions by (cont)

The legacy motoring media is in an interesting position. They must currently keep the legacy car manufacturers, the oil companies & the petrolheads sweet. Because that’s the source of their daily bread. So they publish articles favoured, or even prompted, by the main (cont) sources of their funding. Articles basically saying noisy polluting brrumm brrumm is great & quiet efficient clean electrons just can’t “cut it”. But that’s only going to work for so long? More & more mainstream manufacturers are publishing dates for when they will be (cont)

@Tristan_Young In fairness, Tristan how can you cover EVs and brake wear particulates without mentioning at all that EVs use regen braking and therefore have vastly reduced brake pad and disc wear compared to fossil fuel vehicles? Were you not aware of this technology? @Tristan_Young You then go on to mention an unreferenced, un-named scientific study from Sept 2020 which puts tyre wear somewhere between 0.2-5.5kg per person/year. A range of variability of 2,700%!! Which is statistical shorthand for “I have no clue”! 🤷‍♀️ (cont)

So was at the antiques fair again.
This one is a doozy!
Sir Hiram Maxim’s “Pipe of Peace” dating from circa 1910.
That name’s familiar? 🤔
Yes, it’s the inventor of the recoil-operated machine gun. Ironic name for his pipe for “treating lung disorders”.
(cont) I always enjoy looking at the old technology, the march of progress, the workmanship, the design. (cont)

So the recent UK Government announcement of an end to #ICE sales by 2030 and an acceleration of transition to #BEV has ignited the usual round of bluster and sputtering protests from the clueless and the self interested that this “just can’t be so” and “will never work” ... They cite the usual “I live in a 57 storey flat and I’m 86 miles from the nearest charger“ or “I need to drive 500 miles a day, every day, relentlessly, without stopping once”. But I have a harsh and unforgiving message for them I guess. Those problems, that seem so important..

The joys of owning a Toyota Mirai #FCEV hydrogen fuelled car taken from the FB owner’s group. Note that most of these stories from from California, supposedly the “hydrogen state”. First, so much for that 4 minute refuel time.... Good old range anxiety because finding stations and fuel even, is a continual problem.

#Hydrogen #FCEV vehicles are very unlikely to become any kind of transport solution because they just don't make environmental or economic sense when compared to battery electric vehicles. #BEV Hydrogen itself is just another fossil fuel as almost all of it is made from natural gas with carbon emissions as a significant byproduct. So the basic premise of the #FCEV is destroyed right there because it's just another fossil fuel car and not #Green at all.