The road to net zero might be paved with good intentions, but it's also apparently littered with injured pedestrians.
The conclusion that"E-HE cars pose greater risk to pedestrians than ICE cars in urban environments" was reached based on analysis of 32 billion miles of battery-powered car travel and 3 trillion miles of petrol and diesel car journeys in Britain between 2013 and 2017. Pedestrian casualty rates per 100 million miles were 5.16 for E-HE vehicles and 2.40 for ICE vehicles. The results did not find that they were more dangerous in rural settings, but unearthed"strong evidence that E-HE vehicles were three times more dangerous than ICE vehicles in urban environments."
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