Whereas electrical automobile gross sales proceed to rise worldwide, automotive provide chains are lagging behind the required tempo of decarbonisation, in keeping with a brand new report from Greenpeace Asia.
This 12 months Suzuki acquired the bottom rating in Greenpeace East Asia’s annual auto rating, adopted by Nice Wall Motor and Toyota. China’s largest automaker, SAIC, noticed the very best quantity of electrical automobile (EV) gross sales, however took simply third place within the rating because of its gradual progress on provide chain decarbonization.
“Sadly, automaking giants like Toyota, Volkswagen and Hyundai aren’t decreasing their emissions as shortly as many individuals imagine,” stated stated Greenpeace East Asia Deputy Program Director, Ada Kong. “Regardless of speedy progress in EV gross sales, a staggering 94 p.c of automobiles bought final 12 months by the world’s greatest conventional automakers had been powered by fossil fuels. Business leaders like Toyota and Hyundai proceed to flood the roads with combustion engine autos and a rising variety of SUVs. Main automakers must speed up the shift away from fossil fossils, somewhat than boasting about their minimal EV gross sales share.”
The rating evaluates the world’s 15 largest conventional automakers on their phase-out of combustion engine autos, provide chain decarbonisation, and useful resource discount and circularity.1 Findings are based mostly on Greenpeace evaluation of MarkLines information.
Key findings
Suzuki, Nice Wall Motor and Toyota acquired the bottom scores within the rating. Toyota is the world’s largest automaker, but fewer than one in 400 autos bought by Toyota in 2022 had been battery electrical autos (BEVs). Suzuki bought zero BEVs in 2022.
Mercedes-Benz and BMW acquired the highest scores on this 12 months’s rating, however each automakers proceed to promote extra combustion engine autos than is suitable with limiting the worldwide common temperature improve to 1.5˚C.
SAIC reported the very best quantity of EV gross sales, however took simply third place because of its gradual progress on provide chain decarbonization. In 2022, three out of ten autos bought by SAIC had been EVs.
Nice Wall Motor and Hyundai-Kia proceed to develop their SUV gross sales, worsening local weather threat. In 2022, the share of SUVs in Hyundai-Kia’s whole gross sales surpassed 50% for the primary time. On account of excessive metal consumption and low gas effectivity, SUVs have a bigger carbon footprint than smaller autos.
Conventional automakers have bought few EVs exterior of China and Europe. SAIC is the one automaker included within the rating with sizable zero-emission automobile gross sales in India, Thailand, and Indonesia. Automakers proceed to promote excessive numbers of combustion engine autos within the World South, which is inconsistent with the automakers’ local weather commitments.
Greenpeace urges automakers to undertake bold zero-emission automobile transition methods worldwide. Automakers ought to finish the sale of combustion engine autos in Europe by 2028 and within the US, China, Korea, and Japan earlier than 2030. The transition to electrical autos should be applied alongside funding in battery recycling, decarbonisation of the metal provide chain, and a simply transition for auto business employees.
“Finally, we want conventional automakers to dramatically pace up their adoption of electrical autos. Manufacturers like Toyota and Hyundai face a really actual market risk from all-electric vehicle-makers like Tesla and BYD, however within the face of evolving know-how, they’re dragging their toes,” stated Kong.
Notes
[1] Electrical-focused automakers are excluded from the rating, together with BYD and Tesla.
