Clarifications with Klarén: design responsibility

To ensure a greener future, we’re embracing environmentally sound solutions which harness new technologies, processes, and materials. And even though climate action is a matter of collaboration, some of the most important steps are taken at the beginning of the process, by designers.

Because it is at the design table that the majority of a product’s sustainability impacts are decided.

It’s a responsibility that exceeds making state-of-the-art cars. It’s about making sustainability irresistible.

Polestar Head of Sustainability Fredrika Klarén clarifies it all above.

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