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Environmental and Health Benefits of Promoting New Energy Vehicles: A Case Study Based on Chongqing City

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  • Ruoxi Pan

    (School of Environment & Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China)

  • Yiping Liang

    (School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China)

  • Yifei Li

    (School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China)

  • Kai Zhou

    (Policy Research Center for Environmental and Economic, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing 100029, China)

  • Jiarui Miao

    (Policy Research Center for Environmental and Economic, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing 100029, China)

Abstract

The transportation industry plays a key role in reducing urban emissions of air pollutants and energy consumption. The transition from traditional fossil fuel-based vehicles (TFFBVs) to new energy vehicles (NEVs) is critical to China’s strategic goal of reaching peak carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. On the basis of the environmental status and development of NEVs in Chongqing in 2020, we designed scenarios for replacing TFFBVs in Chongqing with NEVs according to targets such as the number of proposed NEVs in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan. Following this, we evaluated the environmental and health benefits of NEVs and their monetary value using exposure–response and disease–cost methods. Replacing 18%, 35%, and 50% of TFFBVs with NEVs can create health benefits of approximately CNY 11.391 billion, CNY 21.696 billion, and CNY 30.443 billion, accounting for 4.56%, 8.68%, and 12.18%, respectively, of Chongqing’s GDP in 2020. These amounts exceed the cost of government subsidies. Greater health benefits were derived from reducing the toxic emissions of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ); the reduction in deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases created the best benefits for health endpoints, exceeding a 59% reduction in all three scenarios. Our study provides empirical support for promoting NEVs.

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  • Ruoxi Pan & Yiping Liang & Yifei Li & Kai Zhou & Jiarui Miao, 2023. "Environmental and Health Benefits of Promoting New Energy Vehicles: A Case Study Based on Chongqing City," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-16, June.
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