Tesla Cybertruck

zagatoes30

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Another perspective is that it's possibly more environmentally sound to keep an old car on the road.

I don't know what the carbon footprint is for producing a new car but I suspect I would get quite a few years of use out of my older uneconomic polluting dinosaur of a car I currently use before it starts becoming a net gain.

Also the true cost of electric cars must take similar time to balance. Electricity is second hand power i.e. something else needs to generate it and therefore it is unlikely to by carbonless. On top of that the production and life span of batteries and the need for charging facilities must all create an environmental cost.

There must be some sums somewhere
 

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I don't know what the carbon footprint is for producing a new car but I suspect I would get quite a few years of use out of my older uneconomic polluting dinosaur of a car I currently use before it starts becoming a net gain.

There must be some sums somewhere
The footprint , it’s far more than Gandhi’s footprint:
 
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