Electric Cars Are Making It Easier To Breathe, Study Finds (thedrive.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/206209/electric-cars-are-making-it-easier-to-breathe-study-finds
- Source link: https://www.thedrive.com/news/electric-cars-are-making-it-easier-to-breath-study
> It turns out that when fewer cars spew exhaust as they drive along, air quality improves. That's the conclusion of [2]a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health that looked at the effect of increased numbers of both EVs and plug-in hybrids on air pollution in California. The Golden State has by far the largest number of plug-in vehicles in the United States, and they've now reached significant numbers to have a positive impact on air quality.
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> Between 2019 and 2023, for every 200 EVs or plug-in hybrids added, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels dropped 1.1%, according to the study, which used satellite data to track those levels through the unique way NO2 absorbs and reflects sunlight. NO2 can trigger asthma attacks, cause bronchitis, and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.
[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/electric-cars-are-making-it-easier-to-breath-study
[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(25)00257-8/fulltext
Beijing proof of this (Score:2)
Not that many years agon air pollution was horrible in Beijing. Not so much anymore. Air quality is quite good I am led to believe. Electric scooters displacing dirty two strokes certainly helped a lot.
Same story in a few other major cities in China.
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> Air quality is quite good I am led to believe.
You were mislead. It's fucking abysmal.
I will grant you it's not as lethal as it used to be.
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You were there this last year? Achieving a 95% reduction in air pollution over 2013 is pretty darn good and it's mostly from the government pushing EVs. Downside is the poor rural areas freeze in the winter because they can no longer get coal and the CCP doesn't care.
TFS is misleading (Score:3)
Per TFA, the 1.1% decrease in NO2 levels for each 200 zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) introduced was within a zip-code tabulation area or ZCTA. Not an introduction of 200 ZEVs for the whole state of California.
Re: This is obviously bullshit lies because (Score:2)
That was hilarious.
If youâ(TM)re not trying to be insanely funny, then youâ(TM)re just insane.
You are replying to a bot (Score:2)
That takes a comment I made about tire particulate and reposts bits and pieces of it for some reason. I'm assuming it's somebody training an llm off of my comments.
That said I'm kind of unimpressed by the study I expected a larger drop in nitrous oxide emissions. But I haven't read the whole study so it might just be because of the relatively small number of electric vehicles. Also going to need electric semis and those are a major source of emissions since most ice cars are pretty close to zero emissio
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I think we agree that tire particulates are not good.
As for them being a problem.... eh.
They put less measurable shit into the air in a year than 5 minutes of wildfire smoke for 3 states away for me, which for the last 5 years has been about 2 weeks a year, so it's pretty hard to calibrate my fear-o-meter toward it.