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    Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds. Every 200 electric vehicles added in a given California neighbourhood was associated with a 1.1% decrease in annual nitrogen dioxide emissions.
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    Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds. Every 200 electric vehicles added in a given California neighbourhood was associated with a 1.1% decrease in annual nitrogen dioxide emissions.

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    1. iceyed913 on

      Just to save others the headache of wondering what the hell a neighbourhood means. They divided the whole of California into 1692 neighbourhoods. California totals about 31 to 36m registered vehicles. So the math adds up pretty exact at 200 vehicles changed per approximately 20k vehicles, that is indeed 1%

    2. tachykinin on

      Sure and 99% of my driving miles are within 50 miles of my home, but what if I need to drop everything and drive 3000 miles the next day through the tundra towing a trailer?  Hows an EV going to to do that?  Checkmate libs.

    3. firedrakes on

      funny but that bad data set.

      most pollution is not done by the average vehicle. instead its semi,devliery trucks,trains,boats,planes.

    5. jibbidyjamma on

      Real world is good and relevant measure when you line up in columns and drive to and from work daily in an unambiguous channel more saturated with pollution air that the air quality index officially posted for that day week month year

    6. AllanfromWales1 on

      Is nitrogen dioxide (as opposed to nitrous oxide, NO2 rather than N2O) a significant climate issue, rather than just an acidic pollutant?

    7. rainer_d on

      Burning oil for transportation (where 80% is dissipated as heat anyway), is certainly one of the most stupid things humanity does, currently.

      It’s irreplaceable in so many other places and products – but certainly not transportation and heating.

    8. fullload93 on

      Remember when people were trying to claim that ICE cars were better for the environment because BEV used tons of resources (such as rare earth minerals from 3rd
      world countries) AND spewed out pollution from charging because power plants were using coal to generate electricity?

      Well turns out at least for the electric side of things… less and less is being generated by coal, and more is renewable.

    9. Boltzmann_head on

      I recall an air pollution survey in Oxford, which is chiefly made out of grass and sheep, has hyper-toxic and alarming levels of NO2— even though many of their 20,000+ inhabitants ride bicycles. The explanation, I suggest, is due to something called “Blood pudding.”