Posted on 01/24/2024 7:50:36 PM PST by TigerClaws
It was love at first sight when Neil Semel saw the electric Mercedes EQS 450+ at a Pompano Beach dealership. The sedan was the perfect sleek black color his wife wanted, had only 2,200 miles and they both liked the idea of getting away from gasoline.
“I’ve always driven combustion engines and I thought it was time to try to save the planet,” Semel said.
But after less than 5,000 miles of driving around his Boca Raton neighborhood, Semel was shocked to find some essential — and very expensive — parts were already wearing out. The tires.
“If somebody looked at me and said, Mr. Semel, you are going to love this car but in about 7,000 miles you will have to pay 1,400 or 1,500 dollars to replace the tires, I wouldn’t have bought the car,” Semel said.
For many drivers of EVs in Florida — the nation’s second largest market for electrical vehicles — premature tire wear has become an unexpected black mark on vehicles promoted as a green climate-friendly option to gas-gulping cars.
At EV Garage Miami, a Sweetwater repair shop that services 90 percent electric vehicles, lead technician Jonathan Sanchez said tires are the most frequent thing customers come in about — no matter what model or make of EV they’re driving. Tire mileage can vary widely of course, but he said he frequently changes EV tires at just 8,000 to 10,000 miles — a fourth or even fifth of typical tire wear on a gas-burning car.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
EVe are heavy for their size
4 or 5 extra sets of tires. Along with the cost of replacement, time lost, inconvenience, there’s the environmental impact:
We need about five gallons of oil to produce the synthetic rubbers required for a single tire. The whole tire manufacturing process that follows requires two additional gallons of oil. The manufacturing process uses it to fuel the energy required to prepare the materials and assemble the whole tire.
Bigger ones such as truck tires require, even more, averaging 22 gallons of oil. The tire industry often uses gasoline, the production of which also requires oil. For every barrel of oil (42 gallons), they can produce about 19 gallons of gasoline.
Source:
https://blog.tiremart.com/how-much-oil-make-one-car-tire/
The batteries are heavy and the motors provide lots of torque at all speeds.
“To some extent, running through tires quickly may offset the reduction of damaging emissions that EVs offer. Some studies have shown that tires actually have more particle pollution than exhaust, 2,000 times as much.”
Electric cars are meant to be SHOWN to others during Virtue Signalling sessions, not DRIVEN, as the cars aren’t designed for that.
Hopefully he learns his lesson.
Where do these freaks come from?
look for 600-treadwear tires
That and also they accelerate very quickly. The combined effect of weight and quick acceleration.
$1,500 is chump change.
Wait till he finds out he’ll have to pay $25,000 for a battery replacement someday soon. Probably more than that since it’s a Mercedes.
All the larger Mercedes eat tires, pads and rotors. Especially if you have the active lane keeping on.
Should have read Dr Franklin: “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
I have some advice for those of you who have bought in to the “Green New Deal” scam: EMBRACE THE SUCK!
This will go down in America history as the second most embarrassing scam after the Democrat Cheat of 2020!
AFAIAC, those Bozos who believe in the Glolbull Warming Chicken Little fallacy need to shuffle off the stage!
They need to get out of the way of those of us who understand and use Reason, Logic and Common Sense to guide our lives and our politics.
WE WILL LEAD! Y’ALL FOLLOW! AND AMERICA WILL DO JUST FINE!
Save the earth!! Buy tires.
“Some studies have shown that tires actually have more particle pollution than exhaust, 2,000 times as much.”
Plus what the emissions are when the discarded tires burn up in the next massive tire fire.
Just for curiosity sake can someone tell me what the average weight of one of thee cars is. Just wondering...Thanks
Caulifornicatia
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