US EditionStudy links adoption of electric vehicles with less air pollution and improved health
California neighborhoods saw a 1.1% nitrogen dioxide drop per 200 zero-emission vehicles added, confirming real-world air quality improvements linked to electric vehicle adoption.
- Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found TROPOMI satellite data show nitrogen dioxide fell 1.1% for every 200 zero-emissions vehicles added across 1,692 California neighborhoods.
- Leveraging California's rapid ZEV uptake, the USC research team treated this transition as a natural experiment using DMV ZEV registration data and addressed ground-level air monitors' spatial limits.
- A typical neighborhood gained 272 ZEVs during the study and statewide registrations rose from 2% to 5% of light-duty vehicles, yet adoption lagged in lower-resource zip codes and varied by educational attainment.
- At the zip code level, for every additional 20 ZEVs per 1,000 people there was a 3.2% drop in asthma-related emergency visits, and Erika Garcia said `This immediate impact on air pollution is really important because it also has an immediate impact on health`.
- Authors plan further analyses of pollutants, vehicle classes, and overburdened communities, with the study published in The Lancet Planetary Health and funded in part by NIH.
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Study links adoption of electric vehicles with less air pollution and improved health
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A new study confirms that electrifying vehicles significantly reduces air pollution. Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that for every 200 zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) added, nitrogen dioxide levels fell by 1.1% in California neighborhoods. The research, published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal, used high-resolution satellite technology to measure air pollution from 2019 to 2023. The research team summarized thei…
Adoption of Electric Vehicles Tied to Real-World Reductions in Air Pollution, Study Finds - CleanTechnica
Using satellite data, Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers reported the first statistically significant decrease in nitrogen dioxide linked to zero-emissions vehicles. When California neighborhoods increased their number of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) between 2019 and 2023, they also experienced a reduction in air pollution. For every 200 vehicles added, ... [continued] The post Adoption of Electric Vehicles Tied to Real-World Reductions…
Researchers who studied satellite data in California found that the growing number of electric cars had seen a decline in pollution from fossil fuel combustion. On the contrary, satellite data also confirmed that the increase in the number of fueled cars had seen a rise in pollution.
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