Spain's "Public" daily website recently reported that battery production is the main source of carbon emissions in the manufacturing of electric vehicles, accounting for 25% to 40% of total emissions. More and more manufacturers are working to reduce emissions in this area, but Porsche wants to go one step further. The company is working on a better-performing battery with a smaller carbon footprint. Is this a perfect battery?
According to reports, Porsche will invest about 1 billion euros in the next 10 years in various decarbonization measures including reducing carbon dioxide emissions in its assembly plants. Production of the Porsche Taycan at its Zuffenhausen plant (in Stuttgart, Germany) is carbon-neutral from the start, but building a car is about more than assembling all the parts on the production line.
Batteries are one of the main sources of emissions during the production of electric vehicles. Here, the multi-stage production process that converts raw materials such as nickel and cobalt into refined products that can be used in batteries requires huge amounts of energy.
