By John Rose and Andrea Pelligrini, University of Syd
SYDNEY: Electric vehicles are often seen as the panacea to cutting emissions – and air pollution – from transport.
Is this view correct? Yes – but only once uptake accelerates. Despite the recent boom in EV purchases, they’re still a tiny minority of the cars on the road.
We would get more immediate benefit by focusing on electrifying buses, which are a surprisingly large source of air pollution, and finding ways to cut rapidly growing emissions from diesel trucks.
