Polestar 4 has the lowest carbon impact of all Polestar vehicles at launch Comments

• Anonymous
• Fht
• 19 Nov 2023

It would be nice to have the manufacturing carbon footprint of all electric cars. It’s pretty hard to calculate but still.
It’s odd that most of the new BEVs are big SUVs which severely lowers the positive impact they could have (vs ice cars).
Besides those monstrously big cars are bad for the roads and their huge tyres emit a lot more micro plastic.
The environmental effect of a big BEV car is a bit of a mystery for a regular car buyer. It’s nice that Polestar has calculated the manufacturing footprint. Even after that there is a lot to consider environmentally.
I am not at all sure that it would be environmentally better to buy a new BEV than drive your old ice car as long as possible. When buying a new car there is no question.
But the size: in an old Guardian article (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/sep/23/carbon-footprint-new-car) is told that making a of a small car (Citroen C1) makes an under seven tonnes carbon footprint whereas a Land Rover Discovery footprint was 35 tonnes.
So I am waiting more regular sized BEV cars (and combis or estate wagons to top up the three or four models available).

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• yalim
• mu4
• 03 Nov 2023

polestar reduces it's manufacturing footprint but, how about the footprint of batteries which are mined, processed, produced and shipped with fossil fuel across the world?

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