Transportation Resources

Vehicles expert Jess Dunn explores how electric vehicle batteries can be reused, repurposed, and recycled.

How did UCS perform over the last year?

State-level fact sheets on tailpipe pollution from trucks and buses.

It is possible for the United States to transition to a decarbonized and equitable future by midcentury. In the transportation sector, decarbonization entails the phaseout of petroleum.

The communities most harmed by the status quo are adopting EVs at disproportionately low rates.

Electric cars and pickups produce roughly half the climate-changing emissions of a similar gasoline car by the end of their lifetimes.

Exhaust from diesel trucks and buses is a leading source of harmful air pollution that sends Rhode Island residents to the hospital every year.

Exhaust from diesel trucks and buses is a leading source of harmful air pollution that sends Virginia residents to the hospital every year.

Exhaust from diesel trucks and buses is a leading source of harmful air pollution, and its impacts are distributed unevenly across the map.

Solving the climate crisis isn’t just about cutting carbon emissions. It’s about protecting people from harm.