One of the many criticisms of EVs is that they are too quiet, so pedestrians won’t hear them coming when they cross the road. There is particular concern about what this might mean for blind people, despite there being scant evidence that this is really a problem. In the last few days, however, news publications have found an academic study that they think proves that EVs are a LOT more dangerous to pedestrians.
But there are some problems with this conclusion. The first is the age of the data in question, which ranges from 2013 to 2017. Anyone who follows the EV market will tell you that a lot has happened since 2017 with EVs. In fact, there were barely any all-electric cars in the UK during that period. In September 2017, there were 38 million vehicles on British roads, but. In 2013, just 3,586 cars in this category were sold, and only 1,074 of those were BEVs.
Then there are the figures provided for travel miles used to calculate the number of casualties per 100,000 miles of journey. The study says this was performed by multiplying the average annual mileage by the number of vehicle registrations of each fuel type, estimated separately for urban and rural environments. This is where things get very curious. The study says it has come up with figures of 32,000 million miles of travel for E-HE cars and 3,000,000 million miles for ICE vehicles.
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