The article does compare two new cars, but it’s not hard to see that if your ICE don’t have a start “price” (your well maintained ICE), then the EV will have to drive two years on hydro based power, about three years if it’s mixed power (green + fossil), and 13-15 years if pure coal power.

The success of EV (lower carbon emissions) highly spends on green power.

I.E. this doesn’t account for the carbon footprint of making a entirely new car vs keeping an old one running well.

Any car’s carbon footprint is very much about the fuel, that will be much greater impact than the production of the vehicle itself. That’s why coal powered electricity is around the same as fossil fuels. Look at the graphs in the article.

Sounds like excuses for not doing anything - then try Ecosia where you only change search engine and then go do what you normally do. Ecosia won’t go in and buy a big piece of land and give it away, but they will work well local people and pay them to restore trees and plant life. Of cause the work is a little more complicated than one sentence.

A very long time. On the order of multiple decades, IIRC

Not true. It also very much depends on where your power comes from (coal/sun).

You could always donate money to organisations that do these things. Or use alternative search engines that use profit to support nature. I use Ecosia that plant trees and do other things to have a positive climate impact.

But being able to be Bruce Wayne and save a village in South America would also be a sweet deal.

So not old, cool