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If your current ICE car gets decent mileage, there's a strong environmental argument for keeping it going for a good long while, actually ...

Specifically, given that new cars -- including EVs -- are a) made from a ton of aluminum, and b) the processes for making aluminum (as it's currently mostly done worldwide) emit a huge amount of CO2 ...

... the CO2 emissions of a new car, *any* type new car (even an EV) are equivalent, in some estimates, to driving a car for 10 years.

So there's an argument for keeping good-mileage ICE cars going for as long as they can -- while trying, as much as possible, to drive them a bit less ... maybe by getting a solid ebike and replacing some chunk of car-driving with it (assuming that's viable where you live; it may well not be)

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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