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The head of the Swedish car brand Polestar, Thomas Ingenlath, has confirmed the goal of building a CO2-free electric car - without yet knowing how.
“In 2030 we want to build a car that no longer has a CO2 backpack,” Ingenlath told WELT AM SONNTAG.
“Nobody knows how that will work today.
But we have to tackle it. ”He wants to forego compensatory measures such as climate certificates.
According to the company's own carbon footprint, the production of the Polestar 2 electric vehicle emits 26.2 tonnes of CO2.
That is significantly more than with competing products.
According to the manufacturer, Volkswagen's ID.3 comes out of the factory with a CO2 backpack of 13.7 tons, of which 3.8 tons for the battery cells and 1.9 tons for the steel used.
BMW puts the CO2 backpack ex works for the i4, which will be launched on the market this year, at around 14 tons.
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Eric Hannon, partner at the consulting firm McKinsey, sees a new competition among the car brands: “Every announcement encourages competitors to tighten their own goals, to achieve them even earlier or even to bring a CO2-neutral car onto the market.
That is a positive development. "