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Originally Posted by MTUpower
How much does it cost and how much energy is used to design, build, transport, stock, market, sell, and service a new vehicle (plus destroy/recycle the old vehicle) vs keep the older one on the road longer? Where is the break even point? Is this question even addressed?
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The particulate matter trap is between $10k-$15k per truck. As to lifecycle analysis - that's way beyond legislators. It's very energy intensive to destroy and old truck and build a new one, but the issue is the immediate "gains" in air quality. What this basically is a very cute way of moving the worst of our emissions elsewhere (realistically, China) - which ignores that we're all sort of sharing the same atmosphere anyways. It's like how California purchases electricity...