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

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A programme to summation electrical conveyance adoption successful California accrued aerial contamination successful lower-income communities and communities of colour – groups that are little apt to own electric cars

By James Dinneen

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Electric conveyance usage is expanding successful California

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A emergence successful the fig of electrical vehicles successful California seems to person accrued good particulate substance aerial contamination from powerfulness plants, adjacent arsenic CO2 and different types of aerial contamination person decreased. An investigation recovered disadvantaged communities, which are slightest apt to ain electrical vehicles, are astir apt to spot an summation successful pollutants successful their neighbourhoods.

“[Electric vehicles] are lone arsenic cleanable arsenic the underlying electrical grid,” says Jaye Mejía-Duwan astatine the University of California, Berkeley. By adding to request …

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