Volvo EX30 is designed to have the lowest carbon footprint of any Volvo car to date

24 May 2023, 03:17:49

The new Volvo EX30 is a distillation of all the great things about Volvo Cars: a small, fully electric SUV for the modern era, designed to be safe and have a smaller CO2 footprint than any Volvo car ever before.

By tackling emissions across the entire production and lifecycle of the Volvo EX30, Volvo has managed to reduce its total carbon footprint over 200,000 kms of driving to below 30 tons. This is a 25% reduction compared to Volvo's fully electric C40 and XC40 models.

As a fully electric car, the Volvo EX30 has zero tailpipe emissions which not only contributes to a lower CO2 footprint. But in order to reduce the overall carbon footprint of a car, electrification is not enough. A car is not just driven, it is also designed, developed, built and transported – and all those steps offer opportunities to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Designing a smaller car means that you need less material to produce it. Given that aluminum and steel are two of the biggest contributors to production-related CO2 emissions, this is where one can make a big difference. In addition to using less steel and aluminum when building the EX30 new small SUV, more of it is also recycled content. Around a quarter of all aluminum used in building the car is recycled, as is approximately 17% of all steel used in producing a Volvo EX30, further reducing the environmental impact of those materials.

That approach continues inside, because the most sustainable component is the one that does not exist. By using optimization as a guiding sustainable design principle, our designers have managed to combine multiple functions inside the Volvo EX30 within one component. This reduces the number of parts needed inside without compromising on functionality.

The material used for the Volvo EX30 is another contributor to a more sustainable way of creating new cars. About 17 percent of all plastics in the car, from interior components to exterior bumpers, are recycled – the highest percentage in any Volvo car to date.

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