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    By 2023, the transition to new energy vehicles in China led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths.
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    By 2023, the transition to new energy vehicles in China led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths.


    By 2023, the transition to new energy vehicles in China led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00120-2

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    1. lurpeli on

      Not at all surprising. Shame here in the US people are so hesitant to move towards electric vehicles.

    2. mfb- on

      The “, respectively” is an important part of the original sentence. The changes didn’t cause new accidental deaths, as the numbers could suggest.

      They studied how many non-accidental deaths were reduced by reducing particles, and how many all-cause deaths were reduced by lowering carbon monoxide levels.

    3. Several_Ant_9867 on

      And there are people that still argue that electric vehicles emit more particulate matter than IC vehicles because of they’re heavier and only tires and brakes matter…