This week I finally took the plunge and replaced my elderly Honda with a used BEV - a Battery Electric Vehicle. I have taken many years to reach this point. For a long time, I was persuaded by a familiar environmental argument: that it is often more sustainable to hold on to an existing, if elderly, car. The logic is simple - follow the usual environmental advice of 'repair and keep'. Extending the life of a vehicle spreads the 'embodied carbon' from its manufacture over more