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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
By Jeremy Hsu
A free electric car charging station being used in San Francisco in 2020
Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP/Alamy
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…
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