Without considering production and recharging, would simply driving an electric vehicle be emitting carbon dioxide?

Question

Without considering production and recharging, would simply driving an electric vehicle be emitting carbon dioxide?

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Answer 1

Although to a lesser extent then with a combustion engine there is still some pollution from electric cars as well. There is friction from both the tyres and the brakes releasing dust particles from the asphalt, rubber and brake pads. Most of this is in the form of dust particles but it will brake down into things like carbon dioxide over time. These particle emissions can be much higher for electric vehicles then for combustion vehicles. Firstly because unlike emissions from the exhaust which can be filtered and regulated properly emissions from tyres and brakes is much harder to fix and because electric vehicles tends to be heavier then combustion vehicles they have more friction and therefore release more of these particles.