Maggie's Farm

The Drive’s Lewin Day late last week reported on a number of studies showing that “tire emissions pose a threat to global health.”

There may even be “a whole host of toxic chemicals being shed from tires and brakes that have been largely ignored until now,” according to Yale Environment 360. One of those, known as 6PPD-q, is supposed to be “highly toxic to multiple fish, including coho salmon,” although the report doesn’t indicate whether that’s true in amounts actually found in the environment.

. . .You’d think that with all those tires on the roads (and off them) for all these years, everyone and everything would be dead already.

. . . But here’s the kicker: electric vehicles actually make the problem, such as it is, even worse. According to the report, “EVs tend to shed around 20 percent more from their tires due to their higher weight and high torque compared to traditional internal combustion engine-powered vehicles.”

. . . rules are slowly being applied to gas and diesel engines until nobody will be able to build them to satisfy the bureaucrats. But that’s OK because nobody would be able to afford to buy one.

. . . now you know how they’ll come after electric vehicles, too: by making the tires impossible to afford.