Scrapping your petrol car for An EV pays back In three years
THE SO WHAT
Lifecycle math is getting harder to ignore—if you drive a lot and aren’t in an efficient hybrid, the carbon payback on scrapping a new petrol car for a BEV is on the order of three years, per this Science study. Fleet operators and OEMs should be modeling emissions ROI at the vehicle level, not just waiting for natural replacement cycles.
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