CO2 emissions in San Francisco fell 1.8 percent between 2018 and 2022, and new evidence shows that EVs played a part in that
The San Francisco Bay Area has one of America's highest EV adoption rates, and emissions from passenger vehicles there fell 2.6 percent between 2018 and 2022. That helped drive CO2 emissions down 1.8 percent over the same period, and researchers say EVs had a lot to do with that. Emissions still need to come down, but this is evidence that EV policies have a tangible impact on climate change. One of the difficulties of talking about climate change is that it's a huge bummer.
Oddly, the pandemic actually helped the team figure out how to tell the difference between pollution from passenger vehicles, commercial trucks, and industry. The shelter in place order imposed during the height of the pandemic helped the team tease out the subtleties of different kinds of polluters. And the results are positive.
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