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>He also speculated that “regenerative breaking,” where tires work really hard to stop due to torque stress instead of friction braking in gas-powered cars, as another possible wearing effect on tires. A visual is a “twisting effect” of what happens with a dragster’s tires when a driver peels out, he said. Those tires have a shelf-life of roughly a mile-and-a-half when the soft, burning rubber vulcanizes and cracks.

I'm not sure I follow what you mean when you say regenerative braking doesn't have to be put through the tires. The only reason you can do regenerative braking is because the vehicle inertia wants to keep going forward, so you allow that rotation to be used to drive the rotor and generate electricity. The ground resisting that rotation is required for the motor to have a generative load put on it. Either way it's still more you are asking the tire to withstand.

>>I_Am_N+(OP)
He's saying that both regenerative braking and normal braking go through the tires. Both wear down tires via the same mechanism, so the call out in the article is BS.

>>bryanl+N
In fact they're both just means of generating the same essential force: rotational resistance on the axle.

>>bryanl+N
Thank you, I'm following now.