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EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint (news.berkeley.edu)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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these of course come with their own tradeoffs, but you take what you can get

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[–] epyon22@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even in areas that use coal you use less overall emissions within the lifetime of the vehicle

https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM?si=l7nepxiZqoWhZrpU

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, my question was, how much of the 2-3% yearly reduction as claimed is just shifting the emission to elsewhere?