Electric vehicle startups Polestar Automative Holding and Rivian Automotive Inc. are known for doggedly tracking their individual corporate emissions, detailing the environmental toll of everything from the lights in their factories to the rubber in their cars’ tires. On Wednesday, the EV rivals paired up with consulting giant Kearney to raise a flag on the industry more broadly: In a new report, they argue that the transition to electric vehicles alone won’t be enough of a solution to meet the emissions threshold laid out in the Paris Agreement.
“I gasped the first time [they] presented the numbers,” says Fredrika Klarén, chief sustainability officer at Polestar, the electric vehicle brand spun out of Volvo. “It has come to a point where we are running headlong into a crisis.”
