On: UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT

[slg]

>You're wrong about the 12 years — that's the average age at retirement, so the average car on the roads is six years old, not 12.

Here is my source[1]. Average age for vehicles in operation is 11.9 years. 1 in 4 cars are at least 16 years old. Do you have a source on your claims?

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/28/25percent-of-cars-in-us-are-...

[dagw → slg]

"in 1994, 6.3 per cent of cars on the road were over 13 years of age...(in 2019) the percentage of vehicles over this age is 19 per cent."

"according to the research, the average age of all cars on UK roads has increased from 6.7 years in 1994 to 8.3 years in 2019."

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-8739771/Bri...

So the average car is getting older, but still far from 12 years.

[Arnt → slg]

Total cars on the road divided by new car sales.

I seem to find useful pages only in German now (I am in Germany), which I expect wouldn't help you much, but statista.com and wikipedia.org has both, and if you wade through all the irrelevant graphs on statista you'll typically see that total/new is in the low teens for western countries (I checked three now, e.g. 47m/3.4m for .de, almost 14y lifetime or 7y average age).