| Trading cars is not like emptying out your closet and buying a new wardrobe. Used cars aren't just discarded. They are resold or leased to new drivers. This expands the tight market for affordable vehicles — especially used EVs in short supply. EVs still pollute, but they're improving quickly. It's true that producing an EV generates more emissions than making a conventional car. But when you take into account all emissions – both from manufacturing and from driving the car over its lifetime – EV's come out on top. The gap will only grow as more electricity is generated by renewable energy. There is no better fuel on the horizon. The other fuels Atkinson suggests — hydrogen and synthetic fuels — are far more expensive, difficult to scale, and decades away from going mainstream. As I write in this week's column, my bet is most car owners who keep gasoline-powered cars in their garages in a few decades will be people like Atkinson who are passionate about motorcars. That's fine. Most people will be driving EVs and we'll just see gasoline cars the same way we see horses today: as hobbies. | 
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