California’s electric car boom reduces pollution – but not everywhere

An increase within the variety of electrical automobiles in California appears to have elevated high quality particulate matter air air pollution from energy vegetation, at the same time as CO2 and different sorts of air air pollution have decreased. An evaluation discovered deprived communities, that are least prone to personal electrical automobiles, are almost certainly to see a rise in pollution of their neighbourhoods.

“[Electric vehicles] are only as clean as the underlying electric grid,” says Jaye Mejía-Duwan on the University of California, Berkeley. By including to demand …