Buy a used Nissan Leaf, then? The sunk cost fallacy applies not only to dollars, but also to any quantitative phenomenon. The important thing to evaluate is th

Buy a used Nissan Leaf, then? The sunk cost fallacy applies not only to dollars, but also to any quantitative phenomenon. The important thing to evaluate is the cost going forward. When you look at the cost of that new Nissan Leaf, you need to amortize the initial carbon cost over the rest of its lifetime, not just the few years you have it!