EV Innovations: How Electric Vehicles Have Become Cleaner With Each New Versions

The cleaner the grid, the cleaner the EV, as electric vehicle (EV) enthusiasts, like to say. That is unquestionably correct. All-electric vehicles, unlike gasoline-fueled vehicles, do not generate any type of exhaust pollution, smog, or climate change. 

 However, car and truck emissions are harmful to the environment, but they are also hazardous for human health. Asthma, bronchitis, cancer, and early mortality are caused by air pollution from gasoline and diesel-powered automobiles.

Charging Emissions

However, because EVs are charged by electricity, they are indirectly liable for pollution caused by the electricity's source and emissions caused by the production of whatever fuels the power plants use.

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Electric Automobiles

The first electric automobiles arrived in the mid-nineteenth century. Until roughly 1900, an electric car held the automotive land speed record. When compared to 20th-century internal combustion engine vehicles, battery electric vehicles' high cost, low top speed, and short-range led to a worldwide decline in their use as private motor vehicles; however, electric vehicles have continued to be used in the form of loading and freight equipment, as well as public transportation - particularly rail vehicles.

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Renewable Sources Goes Mainstream

Regardless, as utilities shift from fossil fuels to wind, solar, and other renewable sources, an EV will be responsible for less and less pollution over time than a gasoline automobile, whose fuel efficiency and emissions will remain the same for the life of the car.

That is supported by a new study by UCS Senior Engineer David Reichmuth. EVs became cleaner from 2018 to 2019, despite an administration that vowed to support the coal sector. The figures are even more amazing when you consider how far things have come in the previous decade.

EV Trend

In the middle of a pandemic, electric vehicle sales in the United States were likewise encouraging. EV sales increased about 45 percent from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of this year, reaching almost 100,000 units from January to March, a one-quarter high. So far, this year's sales have surpassed the total number of electric vehicles sold in 2020, which is 252,548. However, electric car sales accounted for less than 2% of all car sales in the United States.

Given that the transportation sector is currently the leading source of carbon emissions in the United States, accounting for 29% of total emissions, it is critical to the transition from gasoline to electricity as soon as feasible. Moreover, EVs are ready to take off now that a new administration is encouraging them, and major automakers are releasing more EV models.

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