零排放车辆可以节省各州的健康和气候变化成本。
Electric cars may have gotten off to a slow start, but with new zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) about to hit the streets, the category might be poised to finally go mainstream. There’s another big driver for the ZEV momentum: A recently released report that shows how impactful non-polluting vehicles can be on climate change and human wellness.
The report, called the Clean Air Future and released by the American Lung Association in California, takes a look at the commitment by California and nine other states to shift toward electric cars. The study found that increasing use of electric cars could slash annual the states' health and climate change costs by $21 billion and prevent 2,246 premature deaths annually by 2050. In 2015 alone, pollution from passenger vehicles in the 10 states amounted to $37 billion in combined health and climate costs, and those costs could fall by more than 85 percent with the emergence of more ZEVs, according to the report.
The researchers arrived at their findings based on the assumption that 65 percent of cars in those states will be ZEVs by 2050, fueling a conservative estimate of health and climate change costs dropping from $37 billion annually to $15.7 billion. Based on this math, the study indicates the move would prevent 195,000 lost work days, more than 96,000 asthma attacks, and some 2,200 premature deaths.
降低气候变化成本是Zev采用的另一个重大好处，到那时，由于农业生产力的提高，参与州的参与州将在2030年节省55亿美元，而2050年将节省128亿美元，而目前在农业的生产率提高了，目前花费的价格降低了洪水损害和与气候有关的医疗费用。
Maybe it's time for an electric car in my future.
