{"id":186880,"date":"2024-04-06T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/uc-berkeley-study-confirms-that-yes-evs-do-what-they-promise-to-do"},"modified":"2024-04-06T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:23:56","slug":"uc-berkeley-study-confirms-that-yes-evs-do-what-they-promise-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/uc-berkeley-study-confirms-that-yes-evs-do-what-they-promise-to-do","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley study confirms that yes, EVs do what they promise to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uc-berkeley-study-confirms-that-yes-evs-do-what-they-promise-to-do2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study from UC Berkeley confirms what EV fans already know: EV adoption does, in fact, make the air cleaner. Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now, not just in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Not that these numbers will blow you away, mind you, but still, it\u2019s good news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2024\/04\/04\/evs-are-lowering-bay-area-s-carbon-footprint\">Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley<\/a>, found that between 2018 and 2022, CO2 emission from all sources (industries, homes, traffic) across the San Francisco Bay Area dropped around 1.8% per year \u2013 a difference the researchers attribute to widespread EV adoption in the area. For vehicle emission rates, those numbers dropped 2.6% annually. EVs made up nearly 40% of new auto registrations in San Jose and 34% in San Francisco last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from UC Berkeley confirms what EV fans already know: EV adoption does, in fact, make the air cleaner. Perhaps even more importantly, the study offers some quantifiable, granular data about how much electric vehicles are impacting emission rates in the here and now, not just in the foreseeable future. Not that these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}