You Buying THIS? Advocate Group Tries To Put A Number On Lives Saved Due To The EV Vehicles

The environmental benefits of electric vehicles are well established (despite what some haters would have you believe), and millions of owners will attest to the savings on fuel and maintenance. However, there’s another benefit that’s received much less attention: switching to zero-emission cars means less air pollution-related illness, and therefore substantial savings in health care costs.

EV advocates often invoke the benefits of cleaner urban air. In announcing their plan to banish fossil fuel vehicles from Amsterdam’s city center by 2030, Dutch authorities said that air pollution is shortening the average life expectancy of Amsterdammers by a year. A 2018 European study found that electric buses have a lower total cost of ownership than diesels when health-related costs are considered. A recent study published in the International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles found that, in many scenarios, the cost of installing charging station infrastructure would be more than offset by the savings in air pollution-related health costs.
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TomM - 7/22/2019 10:10:25 AM

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These figures are worthless because they do not take into account the ADDED deaths due to the mining of the rare earth elements needed that make EVs just as polluting as ICE cars. Since it is NOT HERE - they are ignored. But since the earth is ONE planet - eventually it will affect all of us.

Truthy - 7/22/2019 1:40:21 PM

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Not to mention that energy to power your EV is produced somewhere, but I guess as long as it pollutes somewhere else that is okay.
Plus resistance in the wires to get the energy to your EV takes 25 percent or more.

SanJoseDriver - 7/23/2019 9:05:25 PM

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EVs are not as polluting as gas cars, that is just ridiculous. The report should factor mining and other factors only if deaths related to oil-mining work is also factored into the true death toll. I think both scenarios are pretty low compared to the actual air pollution caused by the vehicles themselves. Powerplants are typically built away from large populations as well.

MDarringer - 7/22/2019 10:39:45 AM

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Utter bullshit.

Moo1 - 7/22/2019 11:14:54 AM

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NOPE

Truthy - 7/23/2019 12:34:30 AM

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The pollutants from the frequent fires don't help.

SanJoseDriver - 7/23/2019 9:06:03 PM

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Obviously most people here don't live in a congested city.

MDarringer - 7/23/2019 10:32:51 PM

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Totally irrelevant to the bogus "science" of this FAKE NEWS. You live in the Bakersfield of the Bay Area. You're not suffering like San Fran or LaLa, so once again you're a hypocrite.

SanJoseDriver - 7/24/2019 1:51:50 PM

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You obviously have never been to San Jose and I am not a hypocrite. San Jose is the 4th most congested city in the United States. LA is #1, NY is #2, SF is #3. My commute has gone from 35 minutes to 60 minutes each way in the last 10 years (same drive).

https://ftnnews.com/other-news/37207-top-10-cities-with-the-worst-traffic-in-the-united-states