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Study Links Adoption of Electric Vehicles With Less Air Pollution and Improved Health

05 Feb 2023 | Abstracted from Science Daily

Keck School of Medicine of USC...researchers have now begun to document the actual impact of electric vehicle adoption in the first study to use real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health...dual benefits of reduced air pollution and improved health has been largely hypothetical

"As ZEV adoption increased within a given zip code, local air pollution levels and emergency room visits dropped...At the zip code level, for every additional 20 ZEVs per 1,000 people, there was a 3.2% drop in the rate of asthma-related emergency visits."

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