{"id":43537,"date":"2023-02-23T12:03:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=43537"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:03:05","slug":"electric-cars-making-california-healthier-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=43537","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cars Are Already Making California Healthier: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article comes to us courtesy of\u00a0EVANNEX<\/a>, which makes and sells aftermarket Tesla accessories. The opinions expressed therein are not necessarily our own at\u00a0InsideEVs<\/a>, nor have we been paid by\u00a0EVANNEX\u00a0to publish these articles. We find the company’s perspective as an aftermarket supplier of Tesla accessories interesting and are happy to share its content free of charge. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n

Posted on<\/span>\u00a0EVANNEX on February 23, 2023,\u00a0by<\/span>\u00a0Peter McGuthrie<\/p>\n

In California, where low- and\u00a0zero-emission vehicle adoption<\/a>\u00a0rates are high relative to most of the U.S., citizens may already be feeling the health benefits of cleaner air. One of the first studies suggesting that ZEVs are associated with real-world drops in respiratory issues and pollution has just surfaced, and it seems to offer an important confirmation of what many have already predicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Above: A highway in Central California (Image:\u00a0Simon Hurry<\/a>\u00a0\/ Unsplash).<\/em><\/p>\n

A new\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0published by the Keck School of Medicine at\u00a0USC<\/a>\u00a0suggests that the increased prevalence of electric vehicles in California is already driving \u201cobserved health and air quality co-benefits,\u201d especially in vehicles with high EV density (via\u00a0electrek<\/em><\/a>). The new study looked at real-world data on pollution, electric vehicle density, emergency room visits from 2013-2019, and it controlled against general air quality improvements during the study\u2019s period.<\/p>\n

What it found was that, perhaps unsurprisingly, clean air vehicles such as hybrids and ZEVs made air cleaner and resulted in fewer respiratory problems, and benefits were observed to be increased in areas with higher densities of EVs.<\/p>\n

Technically speaking, for every 20 ZEVs added to a community per 1,000 people, the study showed a 3.2-percent decrease in asthma-related emergency visit rates, as well as a marginal decrease in NO2\u00a0levels. Across state zip codes, ZEVs averaged increases from 1.4 to 14.6 units per 1,000 people during the years studied, showing overall adoption to have increased substantially.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impacts of climate change on health can be challenging to talk about because they can feel very scary,\u201d said Sandrah Eckel, PhD, senior author of the study and an associate professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine. \u201cWe\u2019re excited about shifting the conversation towards climate change mitigation and adaptation, and these results suggest that transitioning to ZEVs is a key piece of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study also found EV adoption most prevalent in low-resource zip codes, and the team points out that these health benefits and reductions in pollution may apply most in wealthy communities.<\/p>\n

The study notes that this gap, dubbed \u201cthe adoption gap\u201d by the research team, threatens the equitable distribution of benefits to underserved communities. Coupled with a history of past research showing pollution and respiratory problems to be worse in lower-income neighborhoods, the study points out that lower-income communities stand to benefit even more from\u00a0EV adoption<\/a>\u00a0than the general population.<\/p>\n

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Still, as ZEVs continue to evolve into, hopefully, more and more affordable products, the study seems optimistic in corroborating expectations that cleaner air will likely continue to result in fewer respiratory problems on a community level.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we think about the actions related to climate change, often it\u2019s on a global level,\u201d said Erika Garcia, PhD, MPH, the study\u2019s lead author and assistant professor of population and public health sciences at USC\u2019s Keck School of Medicine. \u201cBut the idea that changes being made at the local level can improve the health of your own community could be a powerful message to the public and to policy makers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShould continuing research support our findings, we want to make sure that those communities that are overburdened with the traffic-related air pollution are truly benefiting from this climate mitigation effort,\u201d Garcia added.<\/p>\n

Sources:\u00a0ScienceDirect<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0University of Southern California<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0electrek<\/a>; Note:\u00a0<\/em>You can read the full press release on the study from USC’s Keck School of Medicine\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This article comes to us courtesy of\u00a0EVANNEX, which makes and sells aftermarket Tesla accessories. The opinions expressed therein are not necessarily our own at\u00a0InsideEVs, nor have we been paid by\u00a0EVANNEX\u00a0to publish these articles. We find the company’s perspective as an aftermarket supplier of Tesla accessories interesting and are happy to share its content free of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}