EV Popularity in China Accounts for 262,000 Fewer Deaths from Air Pollution
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/upliftingnews/p/2152493/ev-popularity-in-china-accounts-for-262000-fewer-deaths-from-air-pollution
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/solarpunk/p/2152492/ev-popularity-in-china-accounts-for-262000-fewer-deaths-from-air-pollution
The results were a 23.8% reduction in PM2.5, and a 30% reduction in carbon monoxide, resulting in some 320,000 fewer deaths from air pollution.
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In Germany, air pollution from traffic causes three times more deaths than accidents. And by the way, the health effects become worse with hot weather, because of photochemical smog caused from NOx and ozone.
This is why Germany has air pollution zones that overall are becoming much stricter over time. The car industry still has a grip on the country however, no doubt.
Then again I doubt most of China‘s air pollution comes from cars or that their cities are cleaner than Germany‘s. Definitely not on average.
In general, maybe not, but near where most people live and work probably yes. Most people live within tens of meters of a road with cars. Also, IIRC car tires are responsible for a large amount of microplastic pollution, which EVs don't help with at all.
True, but that is just a tiny fraction of particulate pollution. EVs solve a very large part of the problem. Not all of it, but a lot.
The problem is the weight of the car. And with every manufacturer thinking an EV must be a 3+ ton vehicle… yes…
Light EVs are entirely possible, but somehow almost nobody builds them…. (Fiat500, Renault 5, Renault twingo, Honda E)
The problem is that lighter EVs means smaller batteries and less range, but the range is an important sales feature.
It's not even the EV's as much as the electric scooters and electric bikes. There are 100's millions of scooters in China but all electric so no pollution.
I went on holiday to Thailand and got a shock from all the noise and air pollution caused by the normal scooters in Bangkok.
Dam thats a lot of people dying from air pollution. China has some of the worst air quality in the world. Its surprising to the point of disbelief that cars alone were responsible for that drop and not moving manufacturing out of a few of their cities.