> The new study reveals a problem that may grow as electric cars become more and more common over the next several decades. Electric cars, Smith explained, are not truly zero-emission vehicles, so municipalities need to think about strategies to reduce emissions from brake use as well as tailpipes.
The first sentence of the abstract also shows a technically correct statement easily used for disingenuous framings:
“The coming decades promise a transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and with it a greater relative contribution of nonexhaust sources to urban air pollution.”
And while setting up cities to go from car-centric cities to something that's walkable and/or easily accessibly by bus/train/bike for the majority of able-bodied people is something I agree with, that's a change that will take decades to roll out. In the meantime, the cars are here to stay, so we might as well push to get cleaner ones.
> The new study reveals a problem that may grow as electric cars become more and more common over the next several decades. Electric cars, Smith explained, are not truly zero-emission vehicles, so municipalities need to think about strategies to reduce emissions from brake use as well as tailpipes.
Which completely ignores regenerative braking.