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And weight, presumably heavy vehicles wear through more rubber, and batteries are heavy.



Weight. This is so much about vehicle weight.

I think the heavier EVs hit a crossover point because of regenerative braking, but weight does set them back, that's one of the whole points of this study:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...

This is a curve though. We could almost simplify the problem and only look at what heavy trucks generate and ignore all the cars completely, it'd be a non-crazy approximation.




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