The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers

Re:The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers by bombcar on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:41AM (#33774933)

Considered -all in- - if you count the emissions required to keep a modern car operational (which includes accounting for much of society itself, I'd guess) this may be lower.

But that gets obscured because we already HAVE the high-emissions society with all the parts and pieces and knowhow.

After all, a vehicle that fails in the middle of nowhere may never be towed back and fixed unless it's like this one - fixable with very little.

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Re:The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers by oaktrout on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:50AM (#33775067)

I agree. One has to ask: what is worse for the environment, a car that pollutes more but lasts 400k miles or a car that pollutes less but only lasts 200k. The cost and environmental affects of manufacturing aren't zero.

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Re:The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers by zelos on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:29AM (#33775651)

80% of the CO2 is in the operation and servicing.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/comparative-l...

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Re:The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers by bombcar on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:59AM (#33775224)

It also varies based on what you have for recycling and other things, too - if we're talking the only vehicle in an entire town that is otherwise from the 1800s, the long-running simple one will almost certainly win.

But in Los Angeles? That's an entire different issue, especially as there will be so many that economies of scale come into play.

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