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Greenpeace Called the “Dirtiest” Car Manufacturers

A few days ago, Greenpeace East Asia released its latest environmental performance ranking – the list of the “greenest and dirtiest” car manufacturers, so to speak.

The environmental performance ranking from Greenpeace included the world’s 15 largest traditional automakers. The purpose was to assess their decarbonization efforts or, in other words, the measure of their contribution to air pollution.

The analysis is based on some criteria: the number of electric cars (ZEVs, zero-emission vehicles) each company has in its model range, zero carbon supply chain, and phasing out of internal combustion vehicles.

The results are below:

Suzuki is the “dirtiest” car brand with a score of only 3.2/100, largely due to the fact the brand has no pure electric cars in its lineup. The next in a row of ‘eco-friendliness losers’ is Great Wall which earned 10.8 scores out of 100 possible.

Toyota, Nissan, and Honda have not made much progress in decarbonization so far: 11.9, 13.9, and 14.7 points, respectively. Although their current efforts are obvious, these carmakers still have a small share of electric vehicles in the total volume of sales: 0,24, 2,98, and 0,67 percent, respectively.

Mercedes-Benz heads the TOP 5 most eco-friendly companies (41.1/100), followed by BMW (40/100), SAIC (35.3/100), Ford (28.9/100) and General Motors (27.6/100).

That said, a proportion of EV sales for American brands is quite miserable: Ford’s 2.74% and GM’s 1.9%. It is a bit more but still unconsiderable for the German brands: Mercedes – 7,25%, BMW – 10.32%. However, they top the ranking, mostly due to significant progress in decarbonizing their supply chains.

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Dirtiest Car Manufacturers

The environmental performance ranking from Greenpeace included the world’s 15 largest traditional automakers.

Pros

  • Awareness of the threat

Cons

  • Environmental pollution
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