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    - This Woman Turned Her Tesla Model 3 Into a Pickup Truck

    Started by TDoS Mar 06, 2024, 04:00 PM

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    Mar 06, 2024, 04:00 PM
    Quote from: RE on Mar 05, 2024, 10:25 PMElectric vehicles release more toxic emissions, are worse for the environment than gas-powered cars: study
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    First OEM tires on my EV lasted 45K miles. What do tires on ICE powered machines last nowadays, significantly more? And the article might have missed the concept that on my EV, I rarely use the brakes. It is still on OEM pads and rotors, more than plenty of life on them. Turns out, you don't use your brakes very often on EVs. Instead you generate electricity, to put electrons back in the battery. The brake pedal itself, when applied, only puts more juice into the battery, except in a hard application. You've got a meter on the center console that tells you when you are just powering up the battery, or kicking over into needing friction brakes. It becomes a game. How few times can you NOT touch the brake pedal.

    This isn't my first EV. My old one also went about 50-60k miles per set of tires. And after 170k miles, it still had OEM pads and rotors. Wonder how easy that is to achieve on an ICE machine.

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