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Scrapping your gas-powered car right now would actually be better for the planet than fixing it, study says

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If you really want to reduce your transportation emissions, it would actually be better to scrap a brand new gas-powered car and switch to an electric vehicle instead of waiting until that gas car stopped working. That’s true even when factoring in the emissions from mining the materials, making each component, and assembling and shipping the cars, as well as powering your new EV with an electric grid that uses fossil fuels. That may be surprising to some car owners, especially those who are used to repairing and prolonging their goods for the sake of the planet. “My mantra is ‘repair and reuse’ . . . I even re-soled my flip flops once,” says Elliott Campbell, the study’s lead author, in exploring this EV question. An environmental studies professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, Campbell admits he thought it would make some environmental sense to repair and keep using a gas-powered car, rather than switching. “But as you see in the study, for all cars—even new cars that a

First report: Study: Trading In A New Gas Car For An EV Is Still Better For The Climate — studyfinds.com, 4d