Swedish carmaker Polestar says it will build the world’s first emissions-free real vehicle without relying on carbon acceleration, which it describes as a ‘cop-out’.
The company, which was played by Volvo and Volvo’s parent company Geely, outlined its effort to reduce carbon emissions by changing the way its cars are manufactured as a ‘moon shot’ that will become the world’s first carbon-neutral vehicle in 2030. sou lei.
Carbon shifts, such as tree planting, have become a standard way for automakers and other businesses to write off their carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy or conservation projects aimed at boosting the ability of forests to store carbon naturally. But there is growing evidence that offsets could not succeed in slowing global warming, but rather gave licenses to continue polluting.
“Compensation is an outcome,” Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath said in a statement. ‘By striving to create a completely climate-neutral car, we are forced to go beyond what is possible today. We will have to question everything, innovate and explore exponential technologies while designing to zero. ”
FedEx, United, Delta and JetBlue have said they will eliminate all of their releases over the next few decades. And Uber and Lyft have undertaken to go carbon neutral within a similar amount of time.
The carmaker is making two cars: the $ 155,000 hybrid coupe Polestar 1 and the fully electric fastback sedan Polestar 2. The Polestar 3, an electric crossover sports utility vehicle, is expected to be released in late 2021. After its first vehicle, the company said it would only manufacture electric vehicles.
The real challenge for Polestar is the elimination of carbon emissions from its production process and supply chain. Several major automakers have promised to phase out gas-powered vehicle production by a certain target date, including General Motors, Ford and Polestar’s parent company, Volvo. But the production of cars, including the extraction of the rare earth minerals used in lithium-ion batteries, is an intense carbon-heavy process. Even reducing emissions, to say nothing of eliminating them, will be an extremely important task.
Polestar, as a boutique industry, may have more flexibility to achieve its goals than other larger – and therefore less agile – companies. The company announced its so-called Polestar 0 project as part of its first annual review, in which it also said that sustainability declarations will be applied to all future Polestar models.
Sustainability statements, popular in industries such as food and fashion, are a checklist of all carbon emissions and wastes associated with a product or process. From the Polestar 2, the company says it will list on its website the carbon footprint and detected risk material associated with the manufacture of each of its vehicles.
“Today, Polestar 2 is leaving the factory gates with a carbon footprint,” Ingenlath said. “By 2030, we want to offer a car that is not.”