Interesting read here. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rowan-atkinson-duped-electric-vehicles-b2351023.html
Oh dear, here we go. The news article was based on the finding of a report that looked at the build of the Polestar 2, a car that, if it was as bad as the report claimed, wouldn’t have been built with that ‘catastrophic’ environmental impact. The original report concluded that the manufacturing process was significantly worse than ICE, which isn’t unknown and then overstated the miles required for the balance to be made. The report was released through a PR company whose director was a former nurse and the wife of the political relations team at Aston Martin. With a proven bias and released through a media well known for an anti-EV standpoint, this report was analysed and debunked years ago.
https://insideevs.com/news/458458/legacy-automakers-backed-study-against-evs-debunked/amp/
The analysis shows that by the time the Volvo XC40 hit 140,000km (87k miles) it produced a total of 60 tonnes of CO2 it also concludes that, if driven here in the UK, the car would total half that, at 30 tonnes, by 200,000km (120k miles). By my calculations that’s an additional 20t of CO2 in 120,000 miles of UK driving which is 29,000 miles worth of XC40 driving.
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