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>>rntn+(OP)
Looks like an astroturf campaign, with essentially the same story popping up around the country.

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>>bryanl+51
I've been seeing a lot of anti-electric stories recently, even here. A lot about how Hertz has been selling their electric cars (mostly unrelated to them being electric, but because they see a lot of scrapes and scrapes are costlier for them to fix on the electrics they have), about how the market is cooling down, etc.

Seems like some interests are threatened by the prevalence of electric cars.

>>stavro+R1
You can't engine-brake with an electric engine (with a combustion car, downshifting will force your car to be slower when going downhill, basically) so in mountain regions with ups and downs there's way more braking leading to massively increased tyre wear.

>>thefz+34
Engine braking uses the tyres to slow down. Every motion a car does uses the tyres, no matter how it's done mechanically.

And as other comments mentioned, there's regenerative braking on EVs which, in tyres' mechanical terms, behave very similarly to engine braking.

>>piva00+jg
Absolutely not the same.

>>thefz+hX1
It's definitely very much the same from the tyres perspective, regenerative braking happens on the axle which slows the tyre rotation and the tyres friction grips pavement to slow down the mass. Engine braking is the exact same: slowing the axle through the engine, the effects on the tyres is the exact same.

Let me know what's different in your mind and we can have a conversation, you're just wrong.