Electric vehicles have lowered San Francisco's carbon footprint
A network of sensors stretching from San Francisco to Sonoma county’s vineyards shows that electric vehicles have helped lower carbon emissions by almost 2 per cent per year within the Bay Area A network of sensors from San Francisco to Sonoma county has revealed that electric vehicles have significantly decreased carbon emissions in the San Francisco Bay Area by almost 2 per cent per year. The rise in electric vehicles has driven an almost 2% annual decrease in carbon emissions for the Bay Area. Ronald Cohen from the University of California, Berkeley, attributed the reduction to both electric vehicles and more fuel-efficient cars. Cohen and his colleagues calculated the emissions impact of electric cars in the Bay area by comparing their emissions impact to those of hybrid-electric ones.
Published : a month ago by Jeremy Hsu in Environment
A network of sensors stretching from San Francisco to Sonoma county’s vineyards shows that electric vehicles have helped lower carbon emissions by almost 2 per cent per year within the Bay Area
A free electric car charging station being used in San Francisco in 2020
The growing popularity of electric vehicles has helped drive an almost 2 per cent annual decrease in carbon emissions for the San Francisco Bay Area in recent years.
“Really, it’s both electric vehicles and more fuel-efficient cars,” says Ronald Cohen at the University of California, Berkeley. “There have been some efficiency gains in the gasoline-powered fleet, and not just the hybrid-electric ones.”
Cohen and his colleagues calculated the emissions impact of electric cars in the Bay Area by…
Topics: Climate Change, ESG