FedditIn 2025, India's carbon dioxide output edged down, breaking a decades-long trend of steady increases. This is also the first time on record that emissions have fallen during normal economic conditions
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Just converting some fraction of those shitty 2-cycle tuktuk engines to EV would probably make a huge different in air quality (I’d say noise too, but I think that’s probably 99% horn by volume)
It probably did, though a big chunk of the seasonal air quality issues in India are a result of burning off crop stubble, which isn’t visible to urban residents.
Right I was mainly thinking of urban air quality. You don’t really appreciate how huge of a difference catalytic converters and 4-cycle engines make until you go to a place where they aren’t as widespread (and obviously electric goes way beyond that)
Rural smoke doesn’t stay confined to rural areas. It’s worth getting rid of the pollution from burning fossil fuels; it just won’t be enough to solve seasonal smoke in India