Eliminates them how? Do they break down and if so what do they break down into? I'm genuinely curious.

Let's boiling tires !

There are solid tyres available for forklifts and such which could negate the problem you are mentioning. But the issue is the more the rubber the more energy it consumes. There is no way around it. It’s rubber inherent property. It is precisely why it’s used as it softens the ride by sapping energy obtained by unevenness of the road.

The other reason is heat. Since it saps away the energy, it manifests as heat inside the tyre and since it’s a poor conductor of heat it can’t dissipate it away fast and if it gets hot enough, tyre comes apart. So due to this you can see it is only limited to forklift speeds of 10-15 mph.

Believe me when I say, dealing with rubber is a can of worms with material modeling to manufacturing and maximizing performance of it.

Patches work just fine, and as a printing enthusiast, printable treads just sound terrible.

Slow down, they need to find a way to manufacturer planned obsolescence into them first. In America, you cannot have revolutionary technology without waiting for the existing monopolies to hop on the band wagon.

Nitpick: The relationship between vehicle weight and road damage is a quartic (e.g. x to the power of 4), not an exponential

I used to be a vol firefighter. If it's a heavy EV vs a regular weight car the EV will cause more damage and increase the risk of death/entrapment compared to normal crashes. You can't cut open elecric cars like normal ones to rescue people or you'll get electrocuted so that slows everything down.

There are response guides tesla puts out on their site to help us prepare for what a scene involving a tesla would entail. If I remember right like 8,000 gallons of water to keep the battery stable. Our tanker holds 2k. How many highways have hydrants? None that I can think of.

So we're talking about deadlier crashes while also having to arrange water resources like we would for a structure fire. For any significant crash involving EVs

I want to like electric vehicles but it seems like all it's going to do is make firefighters' lives hell for the next few decades

Wow are you talking cybertrucks with spiked stainless©️ steel wheels??

I'm guessing you mean an army of people in wheelchairs?

Tires aren't made exclusively of natural rubber, they contain synthetic polymers among other things.

Additionally, by vulcanizing the rubber, three-dimensional chemical bonds resembling those found in synthetic plastics are created to harden the material.

So the end product is not really "natural" or "rubber" anymore.