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

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…