Toyota ranked one of worst major automakers for emissions efforts

The world's top-selling carmaker Toyota has travel associated past successful a Greenpeace ranking of c emanation efforts by car firms, according to a database published Thursday during the COP26 clime summit.

The run radical gave Toyota and US-European steadfast Stellantis "F minus minus" grades for decarbonisation efforts including phasing retired engines that pain planet-warming fossil fuels successful favour of electric vehicles.

Minimising carbon emissions successful the supply chain and reusing oregon processing greener exertion for car batteries were among the factors examined successful the study that compared 10 large automakers.

General Motors received the slightest damning standing with a C- grade, followed by a D for Volkswagen and D- for Renault.

All the different firms, including Ford, Honda and Hyundai-Kia, were rated F positive oregon minus.

"Toyota, the world's number-one car seller past year, is the astir stubborn successful holding onto interior combustion engines," said Ada Kong, elder task manager of the car manufacture run astatine Greenpeace East Asia.

The Japanese elephantine is besides "most vocal successful specified advocacy, domestically and abroad", Kong said successful a statement.

Toyota, which releases its net aboriginal Thursday, said successful September it would put 1.5 trillion yen ($13.2 billion) successful batteries for electrical and hybrid cars by 2030.

It declined to remark up of the work of the emissions report, successful which Greenpeace urged automakers to clasp fully-electric vehicles.

"Some Japanese companies, specified arsenic Toyota, are assured that hybrid exertion is an effectual alternate to the internal combustion engine," the study said.

"However, the real-world emissions simplification and substance system of hybrid vehicles are not arsenic bully arsenic expected," it said, noting that plug-in hybrids lone trim emissions by an estimated one-third, compared with petrol oregon diesel cars.

The appraisal came arsenic satellite leaders met successful Glasgow this week arsenic portion of the COP26 clime conference—billed arsenic captious for the continued viability of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which acceptable a extremity of limiting planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Greenpeace said nary of the 10 car firms had announced plans to signifier retired combustion engines earlier 2035, which would marque the 1.5-degree extremity "almost impossible".

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