Drop in pandemic carbon dioxide emissions previews world of electric vehicles

ScienceDaily
Nov 10, 2020, 1:32 pm91 pts
When the San Francisco Bay Area mandated shelter-in-place March 16, it created a natural experiment for UC Berkeley's Ron Cohen, who had established an inexpensive pollution sensor network in local neighborhoods. The sensors showed carbon dioxide emissions plummeting 25 percent in the subsequent six weeks,…

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