Electric cars can actually lower the temperature of your city

Urban heat islands, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is where pollution from tons of people living together in a dense area, such as a major city, causes that area to be hotter than the surrounding area. While fossil fuel-burning cars aren’t the only cause, they’re one of the biggest, which is why it’s no surprise that researchers have found that using electric vehicles on a large enough scale can actually make cities cooler.