Depends on the miles. An EV undertakes a new gas car after 20k miles.

There is a point where a new EV, with mined lithium and all, will be more environmentally friendly than a used car that didn't need to be built but burns gas for every mile.

If you live in a sunny area (pv) or a dense hydro area, that point is quite quickly reached.

Whether there's a net lower carbon footprint depends heavily on how much gasoline you burn

However the used EV market is only growing

Simple to do badly, but still challenging to do elegantly. Managing power/throttle response in every situation is quite complex if you want it to feel good. Kinda like how everyone makes a trackpad, but only Apple makes Apple trackpads.

And thats before we get into the complications of thermal management with the batteries and heat pumps and stuff.

Do you mean for an ICE to EV conversion? You can already buy such kits.

And fewer moving parts means less expensive maintenance, generally. Granted, replacing a battery can get expensive, but if you're not going all that far anyway, the battery's range dropping from 400km to 200km after 12 years or so might not be a big deal. That said, the boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness might mean you're stuck with ICE vehicles for a while if you can't get a loan for a comparable amount of time.

Edit: after looking it up, that's also assuming a worst case loss, average range is now roughly 460km, getting better, and it's still at ~78% capacity 10 years later.

Carburetors waste a lot of fuel.

efficient as fuel injection

That's quite wrong.

Lol, I like that

Doesn't engines have serial numbers? I have a feeling this is going to backfire

Sacre bleu!

Cos its a prefix regarding the unit

Winning hearts and minds being a smug prick.

I'm sorry but sometimes you've got to lie to them.

If they have something like gold-plated silverware or jewelry you can be more honest. You've still got to lie and tell them it sold for slightly more than it really sold for (they will bitch and moan anyway, wanting a super inflated price, but still), and give them a cut of what you got for it.

But if it's something stupid like furniture nobody wants, or figurines, for dishware, you've got to lie to their faces and tell them you needed the money for credit card debt. That is the only way they're going to stop tripping over their hoarded stuff and getting rescued by the fire department. "Please grandma give me this massive hoard of plates you have packed in cardboard in boxes all over the floor, I need it to pay off my non existent credit cards" and then throw that shit in the trash.

This sounds like the perfect time to ask if anyone wants a bulky, barely moveable Singer sewing machine which I was told was worth MILLIONS but they wanted ME to have it...

Sure. My point is that every generation that's existed since mass consumer culture began will have their versions of this. Contrast Precious Moments figurines among Boomers to Funko Pops for Millennials.

Holy shit...

You can always call the second hand store to come and take everything