Are EV charging stations polluting the air that you breathe in WA

So electric cars are good for the environment, right? You don't have any tailpipe emissions. You do have some particles created by tires and break wear. (More on that later) Although that's true of all vehicles. At least in Chelan and Douglas counties there's no pollution from generating the electricity that we use to charge an electric car. loading...

But based on a UCLA study, there is pollution coming from the charging station.

According to insideevs.com,

‘ A team at UCLA , led by environmental health professor Yifang Zhu, found that the air around EV fast chargers in use had twice the amount of harmful fine particles typically found in an urban environment.’

The UCLA research team tested over 50 different charging systems in the LA area and the results were co