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News – Electric Cars Are Not “Zero-Emission Vehicles”
While praising California’s decision to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, Governor Gavin Newsom declared that this will require “100{5be0972a10a00bb621c1a18de1a801d58662e556d02921cebb422beac5e5b2fe} of new car sales in California to be zero-emission vehicles” like “electric cars.” In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to the environment than conventional
Are electric trucks zero-emission vehicles?
Electric trucks and EVs in general are often touted as zero-emission vehicles, but are they? There are two types of emissions to consider: air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. EVs have zero tailpipe emissions, which means they don’t emit air pollutants or GHGs out of a tailpipe the way fossil fuel-powered vehicles do. Air pollutants