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Technology / Would electric vehicles & hybrids reduce heavy-metal pollution?
« on: 17/01/2020 20:04:39 »
On the Naked Scientists podcast this week, I heard about the the dangers of heavy-metal pollution caused by brake-pad wear.
In stop/start traffic, electric vehicles and hybrids use regenerative braking to turn the car's momentum into stored electricity, which is then reused when the car accelerates.
This is much more efficient than traditional internal combustion engines, which use the car's momentum to produce heavy-metal pollution from the brakes.
Would hybrids & electric vehicles be a solution to this heavy metal pollution?
See: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/car-brakes-contribute-air-pollution
In stop/start traffic, electric vehicles and hybrids use regenerative braking to turn the car's momentum into stored electricity, which is then reused when the car accelerates.
This is much more efficient than traditional internal combustion engines, which use the car's momentum to produce heavy-metal pollution from the brakes.
Would hybrids & electric vehicles be a solution to this heavy metal pollution?
See: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/car-brakes-contribute-air-pollution