How to Boost EV Sales? Pay Drivers to Turn in Old Polluting Cars | US state-level policymakers are rolling out big incentives for electric vehicle buyers who surrender a gas-powered model, advancing efforts to cancel carbon emissions.
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How to Boost EV Sales? Pay Drivers to Turn in Old Polluting Cars | US state-level policymakers are rolling out big incentives for electric vehicle buyers who surrender a gas-powered model, advancing efforts to cancel carbon emissions.
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Just to get ahead of the inevitable comments claiming that old gas cars have lower carbon emissions than new EVs – the vast majority of any car’s carbon emissions [are incurred in operations, not manufacturing](https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/driving-cleaner-report.pdf), and the carbon emissions reductions of going from a gas car to an EV exceeds the carbon footprint of building the latter. This means, in the long run, we can actually realize a lower carbon footprint by scrapping older gas cars and replacing them with new EVs.
Of course, replacing a used gas vehicle with a used EV would be preferable.