India, Sept. 17 -- "Car manufacturers have not been clear in the past with consumers on the environmental impact of their products," says Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. "That's not good enough. We need to be honest, even if it makes for uncomfortable reading."

Polestar, the erstwhile performance arm for Volvo, which is now the high performance EV brand for the Swedish car maker, has made a bold and rather honest announcement. With the debut of its second model, the upcoming Polestar 2, the company will be declaring the full details of an EV's climate impact from the time of its production. This will be done for every Polestar model in the future with the objective of being the most transparent electric vehicle manufacturer in the world. W...