Electric Vehicles are Cleaner than Gasoline— and Getting Better

UCS analysis over the past nine years demonstrates this trend in action: in 2012, less than half the people in the United States lived in a region where the average EV produced less emissions than a gasoline car with a fuel economy rating of 50 mpg—today nearly everyone does. This reinforces the role that EVs will play as a key solution to reducing the US transportation sector’s contribution to climate change.