EV Owners Thread

[Buck]

With EV tyres I was also told that there is also additional reinforcement in the tyre walls due to the weight of the overall car. The compounds are not all necessarily harder wearing as this compromises grip, increasing wheel spin under load and cornering becomes less stable.

 

[CXRAndy]

What's the deal with EV specific tyres?

The manufacturers claim advantages such as
A - electric cars have instant acceleration so need hard wearing tyres (I just call them hard compound tyres)
B - they need to last long (yeah, hard compound again)

Before EV cars, there were fast and slow. The fast cars has soft compound tyres, the slower cars didn't need cornering grip and acceleration and hard braking properties, so went with harder compound tyres. He harder compound tyres were cheaper.

Now, with EVs, aren't these cheaper, hard compound tyres, just being re-sold at a higher price, or are there some real differences between EV and "normal" tyres?

It's a con

As long as the weight category is correct, any old brand is fine.

My experience has been with Nissan and Tesla. We have over 250,000 miles of use. I've found no noticeable accelerated wear from using EVs compared to ICE. In fact I would say, they wear slightly less . I put this down to smooth linear acceleration and deceleration.

A set on of tyres on model 3 last >25k miles

A front pair on the Nissan leaf last again 25k miles or more. The rears last longer being FWD.

Now I have a friend who runs a BMW i4 the high performance model and their tyres last less than 10k miles. It is a known issue. Allegedly down to aggressively set steering geometry to improve handling feel.

For cars that don't have such setups, I'd expect good low tyre wear.

I use Hankook on all our Tesla's and Nissan Leaf

 

[Tenkaykev]

As I understand it there's no need for " special " tyres.
This chap dug into it in depth:


View: https://youtu.be/_253wLiUhdo