Hydro Joins Polestar 0 for Climate-Neutral Car
Strategic Research Institute
Published on :
03 Mar, 2022, 5:30 am
Swedish electric car maker Polestar has vowed to create a truly climate-neutral car by 2030. Hydro joins Polestar as a materials partner to explore how aluminium can contribute to realizing the Polestar 0 project. Hydro is one of the leading automotive industry suppliers that are joining forces with Polestar in its development of a truly climate-neutral car, the Polestar 0. Polestar is now working to gather some of the world’s leading suppliers of materials to the automotive industry, including aluminium.
Hydro has many years’ experience in supplying car makers with hydropower-based low-carbon Hydro REDUXA aluminium, but the Polestar 0 project will require zero-carbon footprint aluminium. Hydro’s experts will now collaborate with Polestar on defining joint R&D programs and explore specific aluminium alloys needed for the vehicle.
Hydro will apply technologies defined in the companies’ technology roadmap to zero emission aluminium production to supply Polestar and also address end-of-life recycling of the car.
By replacing combustion engines with electric engines, the emissions from the use-phase of vehicles can be reduced to nearly zero, if the car is charged with renewable energy. The next step is to focus on the materials, how they are manufactured, renewable energy throughout the supply chain and how the vehicle can be taken apart and recycled after the end of its life.