Comparison of health and climate damages between diesel trucks and electric trucks

The data show estimates of health and climate damages between diesel trucks and electric trucks. Data supports Figure 1 of the article on Joule, titled "Mostly positive implications of long-haul truck electrification" (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.10.009), by Zhenhong Lin. Results are based on the static AEG-based (average electricity generation) results of Tong et al. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c01273), with the dynamics adjustment that uses a simple weighting average between two static estimates to reflect the transition of vehicle and grid technologies and without discounting. The results suggest: The results on Figure 1 suggest the following. 1) The health and climate benefits of 100% long-haul truck electrification are almost certainly positive. 2) The net positive benefits become greater with better battery technologies and greater renewable electricity share (from scenario 1 to others). 3) The benefits of truck electrification are more sensitive to battery technology improvement with a future business-as-usual grid mix (scenario 2 vs 1) than a future high-renewable mix (scenario 4 vs 3). 4) Accelerating the deployment of renewable electricity (i.e., grid decarbonization) can significantly reduce the health and climate damages of long-haul electric trucks (from scenario 4 to 5 to 6).