Haha - that can easily backfire, because by that logic wouldn't it be much easier to just demand better filters and higher norms for ICE cars?

You don't even have to change anything if you just keep driving your 2010 ICE car until it literally rusts away under your buttocks instead of buying a new car (electric or not).

It'd be interesting to compare the actual CO² and energy use difference (including manufacturing costs for the new car) between driving an existing ICE car less frequently and keeping it longer versus buying a new electric car while keeping the the same driving habits.

More like the fallacy of relative privation: ```(also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as") – dismissing an argument or complaint due to what are perceived to be more important problems. First World problems are a subset of this fallacy.```[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies