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Subjectively sustainable

Sustainability is a word that’s thrown around a lot these days. By definition, sustainable means ‘able to be maintained at a certain rate or level’ or ‘conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources.’

Across motorsport and the automotive industry in general, there is a lot of discussion about sustainability, which primarily revolves around synthetic fuels and alternative powertrain solutions. However, its definition seems to mean different things to different people, and the delta between the most sustainable and the least sustainable is

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