From the people who think windmills cause cancer?
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
- The tiny particles likely come from particle resuspension around Direct Current Fast Charging power cabinets. Cooling fans designed to prevent the electronics from overheating can also stir up dust and particles from internal surfaces.
a) that doesn’t really sound like the fault of EVs or the charging stations themselves. Any sort of very moderate air current would cause the same problem.
b) that sounds pretty easy to fix with some filters simple pleated filters, and that would leave the surrounding environment cleaner than they used to be.
sndmn@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also they’re likely in more densely populated areas which already have lower air quality.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This seems accounted for since the comparative samples are from “similarly urban areas”
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Excactly. The stations themselves don’t create particles but magnetic fields from the high voltage DC lines and cooling fans just pick them up from the ground and back to air. It’s quite misleading to claim this is “Fine particulate matter emissions from electric vehicle fast charging stations” as the stations just redistribute existing emissions.
Obviously this is not a good thing, but the underlying cause is something else than these stations, I’d bet considerable amount of it comes from combustion engines. And as you said, simple filters should fix the problem and clean up the pollution from environment as well.