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For automakers who are under intense regulatory and social pressure to reduce their carbon output, sustainability is about more than just emissions. Most car companies are looking for ways to reduce pollution in every area from manufacturing to materials choices and beyond. And now Volvo-adjacent electric performance brand Polestar says its new Polestar 4 crossover coupe is a carbon-fighting beast.  Polestar has been rather transparent so far on the emissions and sustainability front. Now that the first Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the Polestar 4 has been published, it reveals the EV has the lowest carbon footprint of all the brand’s cars…

Toyota has showed a whole bunch of EV concepts over the past two years, but the reality is its showrooms desperately need more electric cars. The automaker only sells a handful of battery-electric vehicles globally at the moment: the bZ4X SUV, the China-exclusive bZ3 sedan, and the Lexus RZ and UX 300e. But a fourth one will soon be added to the list of production Toyota EVs, but only in Thailand and only in limited numbers: an all-electric pickup truck. The automaker said it will soon start a trial with the new EV in Thailand, a market where pickup trucks make…

Subaru signs on for the Tesla charge port. Polestar suggests it can be greener with an SUV. And don’t listen to the doom talk; EV sales continue to rise. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.  In 2025, Subaru will start adopting the Tesla NACS charge port for its American-market electric vehicles. Further, Subaru EVs will get Supercharger access that same year with the availability of a CCS adapter for current models like the Solterra, the company confirmed Wednesday.  A life-cycle assessment released by Polestar suggests that the brand’s Polestar 4 has a lower carbon footprint than its Polestar…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! October saw plugin EVs at 91.3% share in Norway, up from 86.4% year on year. Full electrics took over 84% of the market. Overall auto volume was 8,925 units, down 29% year on year. Norway’s best selling vehicle in October was the Tesla Model Y. October saw combined EVs at 91.3% share in Norway, comprising 84.2% full electrics (BEVs), and 7.1% plugin hybrids (PHEVs). These compare with YoY figures of 86.4%, 77.5%, and 9.0%, respectively. BEVs have gained almost another 7% of the market over…

Numerous automakers have claimed over the past few weeks that EV demand is dwindling, but recent California sales figures tell another story. EV sales continued to rise in the state during the third quarter of 2023, according to a quarterly report from the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA). EVs represented 22.3% of California new-car sales in Q3, while plug-in hybrids had 3.3% market share. California EV sales via California New Car Dealers Association, with Experian data In the first nine months of 2023, EVs accounted for just over 21% of the California new-car market, compared to 7.4% on a…

Polestar claims its upcoming Polestar 4 SUV coupe will have the lowest carbon footprint of any of its models to date. Cars tend to be more efficient than SUVs, and smaller vehicles use less material, helping to contribute to a lower carbon footprint. But Polestar says the 4, which is set to arrive in the U.S. in the latter half of 2024, will have a smaller carbon footprint than the much smaller Polestar 2 hatchback currently in production. That’s based on an internally conducted lifecycle assessment of the vehicle’s total emissions. Polestar made it a policy to publish these assessments…

Polestar 4 Swedish EV maker Polestar just released its first Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the brand’s SUV crossover Polestar 4, which the company says emits as little as 19.4 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Made in China, the model ranks as having the smallest carbon footprint in the company’s four-vehicle lineup. This latest assessment measures all the carbon emissions from the life cycle of the vehicle, from the production of its many components, to transport, manufacturing, and distribution, creating a figure dubbed “the most efficient model.” While the Polestar 4 will debut in China this year before expanding to other…

Hyundai Motor America reported 60,805 vehicle sales in the United States in October, which is the best October ever, although just 0.3 percent better than a year ago. The year-to-date sales result for Hyundai is 655,952 units (up 11 percent year-over-year). The most important thing for us is the all-electric car sales, which increase quite quickly. Last month, sales of the Hyundai E-GMP-based all-electric cars – Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 – amounted to 2,979 and 1,239 respectively for a total of 4,218. That’s a 167 percent increase year-over-year. The share of E-GMP BEVs out of Hyundai’s total volume improved to 6.9 percent,…

Subaru reported Wednesday that it has reached a deal to adopt the Tesla-based charge port, called the North American Charging Standard (NACS), for its future battery electric models due to arrive in the U.S. starting in 2025.  According to Subaru, it will adopt NACS ports on “certain Subaru BEVs launched in North America” beginning that year, while it will keep advancing NACS adoption in subsequent models.  In 2025, it will offer an adapter allowing NACS charging for vehicles equipped with the current CCS charge port—permitting access to more than 15,000 Tesla Superchargers in North America, Subaru says, along with other…

China’s October wholesale sales of passenger NEVs are expected to be 890,000 units, up 32 percent year-on-year and up 7 percent from September, the CPCA said. China’s wholesale sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) are poised to hit another new high as sales momentum continues. Wholesale sales of passenger NEVs in China are expected to be 890,000 units in October, up 32 percent year-on-year and up 7 percent from September, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said in a report today. In September, 17 manufacturers with wholesale sales of more than 10,000 units of NEVs contributed 88.4 percent of all…