compilated by: Sahar Yaghoubi
According to a list released Thursday (Nov 3) at the COP26 climate conference, Toyota, the world’s top-selling automobile manufacturer, is tied for bottom place in a Greenpeace ranking of carbon emission measures by automobile manufacturers.
In its report, the advocacy organization handed Toyota and the US-European corporation Stellantis “F minus negative” marks for their decarbonization efforts, which included phasing out engines that burn planet-warming fossil fuels and replacing them with electric cars.
The survey, which contrasted ten major manufacturers, looked at a variety of aspects, including reducing carbon emissions across the supply chain and recycling or inventing better technologies for vehicle batteries.
The least critical evaluation was given to General Motors, which scored a C-. Volkswagen and Renault obtained Ds and D- grades, respectively.
All of the other automobile manufacturers, including Ford, Honda, and Hyundai-Kia, received an F plus or negative rating. “Toyota, the world’s largest automobile manufacturer last year, is the most obstinate in its commitment to internal combustion engines,” said Ada Kong, senior project manager of Greenpeace East Asia’s auto sector campaign.
Toyota, which will reveal its earnings report later on Thursday, said in September that it will spend 1.5 trillion yen ($13.2 billion) on batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles by 2030, a figure that has since increased.
Before the release of the emissions study, in which Greenpeace encouraged manufacturers to adopt fully-electric cars, the organization refused to comment.
In a statement, Greenpeace said that none of the ten automakers had revealed intentions to phase out combustion engines before 2035, making the 1.5-degree target “virtually unattainable.”
