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by brianwawok 2047 days ago
Sure, but do realize those 25 year old cars are likely polluting 2-10x more than modern cars. The sooner we can get the oldest cars off the road, the best chance our planet has.
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Order of magnitude, making a car creates about as much emissions as driving it over its lifetime. [0]

If we typically average even just 20 years from an ICE and 10 from a BEV, the BEV starts out way behind in the green race and might never catch up.

Stopping making new inefficient cars is good. Scrapping working perfectly good cars is an alloy of good and bad.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...