"Enjoy your electric car, champ, but carbon-wise it's actually better to keep a mid-2000's Toyota running for an extra decade so that all the carbon that was re

"Enjoy your electric car, champ, but carbon-wise it's actually better to keep a mid-2000's Toyota running for an extra decade so that all the carbon that was released in its manufacture is amortized over a longer lifetime." That's a nice strawman you've erected. Why not sell the Toyota to someone instead of sending it to the shredder?