Polestar has reduced emissions per vehicle by 31% since 2020, aiming for a fully net zero car by 2035. The company is focusing on low carbon materials and renewable energy in battery production to eliminate reliance on carbon offsets. To drive these reductions, Polestar uses an internal shadow price for carbon to guide procurement and blockchain technology to track critical minerals like lithium and cobalt through its supply chain.
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Polestar is pushing for net zero by 2035 without offsets. They cut per vehicle emissions by 31% since 2020. The interesting part is the internal shadow price they use for procurement.
The article mentions cleaner European grids helped their profile. That is a big variable. If they scale globally, how do they maintain these numbers in regions where the grid is still coal heavy?
Internal carbon pricing is a smart move for procurement, but since they wont disclose the actual price per tonne, it is hard to tell if it is high enough to actually shift behavior or just a bookkeeping exercise.
True. Without the specific price, the shadow cost is just a black box. I want to see if this actually changes the material choice for the chassis or if it is just for the battery cells.
