Evaluating long-term emission impacts of large-scale electric vehicle deployment in the US using a human-Earth systems model.

ABSTRACT: While large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) globally would reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) and traditional air pollutant emissions from the transportation sector, emissions from the electric sector, refineries, and potentially other sources would change in response. Here, a multi-sector human-Earth systems model is used to evaluate the net long-term emission implications of large-scale EV adoption in the US over widely differing pathways of the evolution of the electric sector. Our results indicate that high EV adoption would decrease net CO₂ emissions through 2050, even for a scenario where all electric sector capacity additions through 2050 are fossil fuel technologies. Greater net CO₂ reductions would be realized for scenarios that emphasize renewa

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC8576614 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature