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Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What about convert the old cars to electric?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, buy new fossil fuel cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

There's a heavy CO2 cost to making batteries so even if you convert an ICE vehicle to electric, you'll have to drive it quite far to break even on the CO2 emissions from the factory.