Carmakers dream of clean, green, mean electric machines

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An electric car is a clean car, right? If only it were so simple.

From motor magnets with toxic histories to batteries made using copious fossil-fuel power, many challenges face carmakers seeking to purge dirtier materials from their supply chains to satisfy regulators and investors.

Globally, the prospect looms of national carbon taxes that could cost lagging automakers dearly, while investors and financiers increasingly favour companies with strong environmental, social and governance credentials. "We only source new business with suppliers with a road map to net zero," said Andy Palmer, an electric vehicle pioneer who is CEO of Switch Mobility, a British-based EV maker owned by Indian commercial vehicle maker Ashok LeylandSwitch buys credits to offset the carbon used to make metal components and factors in that cost when assessing new parts, he added.

, which develops modelling software for various industries, has seen surging demand from carmakers seeking to simulate cars and components with greener or lighter materials, such as aluminium instead of steel, said Pepi Maksimovic, director of application engineering. "Big asset managers who have allocated huge sums of money to invest in ESG compliant companies have found there aren't enough of them," said Azar.Full Circle has invested in Britishvolt, a British startup that's building an EV battery plant that will run only using renewable energy.

 

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Nirvana fallacy. Electric cars don’t add to air pollution nearly as much as ICE cars. An industrialized society can’t be 100% carbon neutral by its very nature, but EVs take away one of the primary causes of air pollution.

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