Probably, but by a small factor because the amount of gas vehicles compared to the amount of zero emissions cars

There are over 80,000 EVs registered in New Jersey. A typical gas car produces over 4 tons of CO2 per year, so yes…? And diesel cars are even worse offenders for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. NJ Transit has started using electric buses in Camden, and Gov Murphy just approved $45 million for electric school buses. The BPU also has a new program for installing chargers for heavy duty trucks. So maybe not a lot “yet”, but starting to get there.

So it's a tiny portion, but when do you think that will change?

Car pollution isn't even the biggest cause of air pollution, so probably not until there is a significant number of ICE vehicles off the road.

Isn't EV just moving your carbon foot print elsewhere?

I don't think so. It's still more efficient than gas. That's why they calculate mpge. So it's not 0, but generally they get around 70-130mpge.

That can't be true. New Jersey has nuclear power and no coal power plants. It's majority cars/trucks.

No, it's reducing it in aggregate over their lives compared to gas cars.

Making batteries creates pollution. Mining , with diesel trucks. Transporting raw materials from foreign country. Manufacturing. Then there's the electric grid that can't handle more load. Volvo released there study on electric cars, base battery 8 yrs. Before it's green. Larger range batteries longer. Then what do you do when batteries fail. No recycling yet. Also solar panels, when they start to fail (20yr life) same thing no plans.

The biggest cause of pollution is farming.

20 years is for the panels to be below 70% efficiency.

If I remember properly, each gallon of gasoline you burn in your car puts 7 pounds of CO2 in the air, so yes.

Lol, what? There's barely any farming left in NJ. Citations please.

Never been to SJ?

newer cars from the last 20 years or so barely pollute except for CO2 which is by design. the pollution is from the brake dust and other road particulates and won't go away with electric cars.

when they get the trucks off the road or make them electric. those produce the most pollution

No . We need many more especially environmentally friendly ones

So South Jersey farms are the biggest source of pollution in NJ?

I’m not sure of the statistics, was saying that there is plenty of farming in NJ

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They are re-using batteries that have gone past their useful lifespan in cars as excess grid storage in California. Should be doing it everywhere.

I also think the power grid issue is overblown. As prices go down and once V2L and V2G gets introduced to more cars, I actually think EV's may HELP the power grid by being able to power houses during times of high usage. If you can imagine, in the summer, you're car charges to 80% overnight, you drive it back and forth to work, plug it back in to your V2G charger at home around 50%, and then if the grid gets stressed due to high usage, your house can move over to being powered by your car, and then once the grid demand wanes, your house switches back to the grid and your battery gets charged back to 80% for the next day.

EVs are still too expensive. Does anyone even know where to get these things repaired?