Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV, says actor Rowan Atkinson
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“You can now make a car for £15,000 that, with tender loving care, will last for 30 years. It’s sobering to think that if the first owners of new cars just kept them for five years, on average, instead of the current three, then car production and the CO₂ emissions associated with it, would be vastly reduced. Yet we’d be enjoying the same mobility, just driving slightly older cars.“