I agree. This article makes no sense. A Tesla model S weighs 4600 pounds, about the same as other cars that size, and if it uses regenerative breaks it should use less break pads as well.
Thanks - without a relevant frame of reference the article doesn’t prove anything.
I used to drive a sports car and went through a set of /245 tires every 4k miles...don’t see any of the Tonka toy battery cars I know of doing that...at least the ones produced in high enough numbers to even figure in the 0.1% market share of all cars sold...(A Tesla might, but it’s too exotic on the scale to matter - and AFAIK there is no Tesla ICE equivalent to make a comparison to.)