Electric cars are more polluting than gasoline vehicles

Electric cars are being praised as an environmentally friendly transport solution, especially in urban areas. But a study conducted by Tennessee scientists in China showed that electric cars are more polluting and affecting health than conventional gasoline-powered vehicles.

Chris Cherry, assistant professor of civil and civil engineering, and a graduate of Shuguang Ji, analyzed exhaust patterns and the health impact of five transportation technologies and focused on dust particles. Smooth danger to health.

They found that the process of producing electricity to serve electric cars generates dust particles that pollute more than equivalent gasoline-powered vehicles.

In China today, electric cars are being used
more than gasoline-powered cars. (Source: Daily Mail)

For electric cars, dust particles generated when electricity production is generated, not the process of driving. Fine dust particles come from the burning of fossil fuels, including acids, organic chemicals, metals and soil and dust particles.

In China, 85% of electricity is produced from fossil fuels, and about 90% of it comes from coal.

Cherry's group focused on Chinese research because electric cars are a popular vehicle in the country. Electric cars and motorcycles in China are being used more than gasoline cars.

The authors of the study found that the energy production process in China to operate electrically powered vehicles discharged fine dust particles has a much higher rate than gasoline-powered vehicles.

Moreover, for electric cars, rural people suffer about half of urban emissions.