Driving up country today, a six hour run and I don't like the radio/ CD player as it has to be turned up enough to hear that it blows out my eardrums.
So driving in silence with time to think. Tyre wear of approx 3k miles. With average mileage at around 11k that's around 4 sets a year.
A big heavy car so expensive tyres, say £200 each to give an annual total of over £3k.
That amount buying diesel for use in a modern turbo diesel would give around 1 3/4 years driving at average miles.
Rough I know but near enough to make a point. Considered in the round just how green is an EV ?

We had a Tesla Y for about 6 months (company car) and you could literally do an entire journey without touching the brake pedal. As you slowed down you got a warning that the brake lights were on - this was from the engine braking not the brake pedal.
Back to the topic in hand.  I had a 2006 Defender 90 SW, put some General Grabber AT2s on at 9k miles and they were still going strong when it was stolen at 105k miles.

Regenerative braking. Uses the drive motor to recharge the battery, thus slowing forward motion.

Quote from: Alan Drover on Today at 09:39 AMDo they have engine braking?

Lots of it.
Friend of mine has an EV and you can drive it on a setting with maximum engine braking and taking your foot off the pedal is like pressing the brakes in a petrol car. I think you can also drive it in one pedal mode where you only use the accelerator and if you take your foot off completely it will slow down and stop completely.

Craig.

Do they have engine braking?

I have read that the EVs are contributing greatly to the 2.5 micron particulates from tyre wear and brakes of course
Compensates for the lack of emissions perhaps ?

Lord giveth and taketh away...............

Hi,

If you are drilling threaded hubs to accept splined studs, be very careful that you hold the drill at 90* to the face of the hub, else the studs stick out at an angle ... or more awkwardly ,,, at different angles ... which can it difficult to fit the wheel over the larger/smaller/strange PCD

If you are concerned about safety, consider fitting complete S3  hubs ... I assume they are interchangeable

A few years ago, a complete S3 hub with bearings and studs retailed at something over £110. I'm guessing there is a lesser demand for second hand S3 hubs, seeing as their studs should have a lower rate of attrition.

602 (Who used to pay a smidgen over £1 for new nuts).

Had a Rover 75 estate for 14 years and 168,000 miles. Probably over 100,000 miles of that we're spent towing a double stack dinghy trailer. Never got more than 10,000 miles out of a front set but rears lasted 30,000+
The wee vx corsa 1.0 we had for 4 years was sold with 52,000miles on the rears with about 3mm left. I think the secret is to stay off the brakes and corner gently.

3 S2s at Bolton Castle in Wenslerydale with Great Whersnside in the background on a very soggy Sunday morning

My electric Up! Isn't exactly a heavyweight. It's done 14k and the rears are hardly worn, the fronts about 60% worn. They'll probably do another 3k. My L663 Defender has now done 25k and it needs 4 new shoes!