I spent a number of years in the auto industry, and electric hybrids get scrapped immediately when the batteries go, for a number of reasons. High voltage mechanics don't want to handle(not that its really that dangerous they just would rather not deal with it) The batteries are the problem they do not last and they can be reconditioned but you lose cells and have to replace them with cells from other scrapped batteries. Electric cars are not at the moment a good solution with current battery technology if you ask me.
As long as it takes rare earth minerals to make the batteries and coal/natural gas to produce the electricity they are not even close to the efficiency of a gasoline powered car.
As for replacing parts and scrapping cars due to that most auto shops make most of their money not on walk in customers or retail they make their money on working for dealerships who buy cars with major problems at auction and fix them for a profit. Just a few months ago I saw 2013 ford focus with a blown motor that got replaced 3 times before it was able to be sold. The dealer still came out on top. Granted they completely fucked over the customer but my point is its a huge industry and there are a lot of cars sitting in junk yards but far more would be going there if everything was electric.
My Apologies for the wall of text.
PS How you doing man?
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