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I don't have any data, but I'm surprised if a new electric is worse than a second hand ICE? What's your thinking behind that?
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Better to use a car that's already made then to make a new one.
That sort of makes sense, but then cars aren't stand alone things, they actively consume to travel. I guess it's a case of how much CO2 (I'm assuming we're ignoring other environment impact for now) is used in manufacture vs driving?
The second hand ICE keeps you buying new fuel though. With the EV, depending on location, most of your "fuel" is wind and sunshine, maybe nuclear.
With cars, you can't really compare the production alone, they pollute way more after the fact.
You would think that's true but after 50,000KM or so that new car is now essentially carbon neutral, while that old car is still puffing out co2