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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 selection and the correct selection one and the identical. Consequently, the full 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 will be taken to cut back their local weather influence.

Nearly all of greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions stem from the extraction and processing of varied supplies, with three parts — 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 embody metal made with renewable vitality, and completely new options might relate to electronics, tires, and thermoplastics.

The strategy 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 complete 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 Vehicles’ Chengdu manufacturing facility in China, further manufacturing is slated to start out in South Carolina, USA, in the midst 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: “Nearly all of a car’s greenhouse fuel emissions stem from extracting and processing supplies. As we speed up the adoption of electrical vehicles, there’s a lot we will do to cut back their production-related emissions and strengthen the function of improvements and of electrical vehicles as a local weather resolution, Polestar 3 is a testomony to that.”

Complete transparency concerning the environmental influence of the automotive is obtainable by the LCA report.  The LCA has been calculated utilizing three totally 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 Vitality Company) which take note of elevated shares of renewables, underscoring their potential for lowering the automotive’s emissions throughout the use part. For the primary time in any Polestar LCA, car upkeep is included within the calculations. The automotive’s cradle-to-grave carbon footprint ranges between 28.5 – 44.5 tCO₂e relying on the electrical energy used to cost the car throughout its lifetime.

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

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

The Polestar 3 Product Sustainability Declaration will 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 automotive at launch (19.4-21.4 tCO₂e). Since launch in 2020, the cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of Polestar 2 has been lowered by three tonnes in three years (now 22.4-23.1 tCO₂e).

Polestar’s LCAs, printed since 2020, think about a variety of things in a automotive’s life cycle, from provide to fabricate and recycling, and summarise the local weather influence in a single simply understood quantity. This allows customers to make fast and educated selections when shopping for a automotive. The LCA figures acknowledged on this launch disclose the vehicles’ cradle-to-gate carbon footprint which incorporates materials acquisition by means of 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 automotive including use part and end-of-life on prime of its cradle-to-gate carbon footprint.