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Nature Climate & Emissions

Electric vehicles are already saving hundreds of thousands of lives in China

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Swapping gas cars for electric ones is like replacing a coal furnace in your basement with a clean heat pump — the person with the furnace notices a smell, but the neighborhood feels cleaner.

This means the health case for EVs is as strong as the climate case, and we're seeing real mortality benefits *today*, not in some distant carbon-neutral future.


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