On The Quest For Efficiency & Sustainable Mobility: Polestar 3 Cuts Its Carbon Footprint To 24.7 tCO2e

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Polestar 3 Cuts Its Carbon Footprint To 24.7 tCO2e By Decreasing Aluminium & Battery Associated Emissions

Polestar creates unique electrical efficiency vehicles that harness minimalistic design, technological improvements, and sustainable options to make the fascinating alternative and the correct alternative one and the identical. Consequently, the whole cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of Polestar’s first electrical efficiency SUV, Polestar 3, is decrease than that of the smaller Polestar 2 when it was launched in 2020 at 24.7 tCO₂e versus 26.1 tCO₂e. Proof that even for big SUVs motion could be taken to cut back their local weather affect.

The vast majority of greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions stem from the extraction and processing of varied supplies, with three elements — aluminium, metal, and batteries. The Lifecycle Evaluation (LCA) report for Polestar 3 reveals that materials manufacturing and refining contribute 68% of its cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of which aluminium represents 24%, iron and metal 17% and battery module manufacturing 24%.

Our work at Polestar goals to implement current options, advocate for rising options, and actively deal with what’s presently thought of unsolvable. Present options might contain buying aluminum produced utilizing renewable electrical energy, rising options might embrace metal made with renewable vitality, and completely new options might relate to electronics, tires, and thermoplastics.

The method to assembly the formidable cradle-to-gate goal for Polestar 3 took learnings from the carbon footprint reductions of Polestar 2. Consequently, 81% of Polestar 3’s whole aluminium mass manufacturing, the Li-ion battery cell module manufacturing in addition to anode and cathode materials manufacturing use 100% renewable electrical energy. By doing this, 8.5 tCO₂e have been eradicated.

Manufactured initially at Volvo Automobiles’ Chengdu manufacturing facility in China, extra manufacturing is slated to begin in South Carolina, USA, in the course of 2024. Each manufacturing crops use 100% renewable electrical energy. A separate LCA might be produced for vehicles produced on this manufacturing facility.

Fredrika Klarén, Head of Sustainability at Polestar, says: “The vast majority of a automobile’s greenhouse fuel emissions stem from extracting and processing supplies. As we speed up the adoption of electrical vehicles, there’s a lot we are able to do to cut back their production-related emissions and strengthen the position of improvements and of electrical vehicles as a local weather answer, Polestar 3 is a testomony to that.”

Complete transparency concerning the environmental affect of the automobile is obtainable by the LCA report.  The LCA has been calculated utilizing three completely different electrical energy mixes and a 200,000 km lifetime distance pushed. The methodology to evaluate the electrical energy in use part has been up to date and now contains extra life like situations from the IEA (Worldwide Power Company) which bear in mind elevated shares of renewables, underscoring their potential for lowering the automobile’s emissions throughout the use part. For the primary time in any Polestar LCA, automobile upkeep is included within the calculations. The automobile’s cradle-to-grave carbon footprint ranges between 28.5 – 44.5 tCO₂e relying on the electrical energy used to cost the automobile throughout its lifetime.

The LCA report, carried out in accordance with ISO 14067:2018, is the primary Polestar LCA report that has been reviewed by a 3rd occasion, the worldwide strategic, environmental, and engineering consultancy Ricardo plc.

The Polestar 3 LCA report could be discovered on polestar.com/sustainability/reviews/.

The Polestar 3 Product Sustainability Declaration could be accessed at polestar.com/polestar-3/sustainability/

Notes to editors

Polestar 3 joins the Polestar portfolio alongside Polestar 4, which was confirmed in late 2023 to have the bottom cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of any Polestar automobile at launch (19.4-21.4 tCO₂e). Since launch in 2020, the cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of Polestar 2 has been diminished by three tonnes in three years (now 22.4-23.1 tCO₂e).

Polestar’s LCAs, printed since 2020, contemplate a spread of things in a automobile’s life cycle, from provide to fabricate and recycling, and summarise the local weather affect in a single simply understood quantity. This allows shoppers to make fast and educated choices when shopping for a automobile. The LCA figures said on this launch disclose the vehicles’ cradle-to-gate carbon footprint which incorporates materials acquisition via the manufacturing of the product and excludes the use and end-of-life phases. The LCA figures associated to the automobiles’ cradle-to-grave carbon footprint current a complete carbon footprint of the automobile including use part and end-of-life on high of its cradle-to-gate carbon footprint.