You really are a man full of arguments, aren't you?
According to EPA the average car during its lifecycle produces 38 metric tons of CO2 if it reaches 200k miles.
Producing a car alone, producing it, without putting a single mile in it produces between 7 and 35 metric tons (based on the size of the vehicle).
If you can do very basic math you can understand that the greener option is ALWAYS to keep your old car, unless, again, you do really a lot of miles and electricity in your country is mostly (70%+) renewable.
But that truth is hardly said loud, because it doesn't sell lots of cars and doesn't make enough money.
Meanwhile we're killing the planet even further convincing places like southern europe to buy electric cars even tho they mostly use gas to produce electricity in the first place.
It is better to talk about the lifetime of a car vs the lifetime of your use of a car. An new electric car has better carbon emissions than a new gas car after 13k miles.
Your point of purchasing a "used car" as a better option reduces carbon emissions by removing vehicles from the system.
Don't buy new cars as a Co2 mitigation strategy is unrealistic and against buying electric is just pedantic and your argument is frankly misleading.
According to EPA the average car during its lifecycle produces 38 metric tons of CO2 if it reaches 200k miles.
Producing a car alone, producing it, without putting a single mile in it produces between 7 and 35 metric tons (based on the size of the vehicle).
If you can do very basic math you can understand that the greener option is ALWAYS to keep your old car, unless, again, you do really a lot of miles and electricity in your country is mostly (70%+) renewable.
But that truth is hardly said loud, because it doesn't sell lots of cars and doesn't make enough money.
Meanwhile we're killing the planet even further convincing places like southern europe to buy electric cars even tho they mostly use gas to produce electricity in the first place.
There's plenty of studies online you can read: https://bfy.tw/SyoX