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

Those charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data/#/

Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.