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of its vehicles’ carbon footprint and the global steel industry accounts for seven percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.
The transportation sector, meanwhile, accounted for 27 percent of America’s greenhouse gases in 2020, according to. So, while it’s important to replace polluting internal combustion vehicles with electric vehicles that emit considerably less, it will also be important for those EVs to be long-lasting. And that may require new skills.
“We need new skill sets in the aftermarket and to design cars so that the seat can be removed, and a fresh seat can be moved in – then it’s a used car that looks like a new car,” said Dernai. “It can have the same owner, who then doesn’t buy a new car, but we still have a business modelDernai pointed to the importance of making the automotive industry greener because of the realities of how infrastructure is set up.
“Can we actually just move everybody to public transport? I think the answer is no,” she said. “You’re worried about the public transport in the U.K., but if you look at the US it’s even more desolate. So I think there’s still a market for cars out there.”
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