Abstract:

This third edition of the ICCT’s Global Automaker Rating report assesses how the world’s largest automakers stack up in the transition to ZEVs—that is, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Focused on the top 21 light-duty vehicle manufacturers in the world by sales in 2024, the study use 10 custom-built metrics to reflect automakers’ efforts and strategies in transitioning their vehicle fleets to zero tailpipe emissions and decarbonizing manufacturing processes. It introduces a new metric on green steel, updated battery recycling and repurposing metric to consider realized progress rather than just announcements, and update the methodology used to estimate the real-world operation of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in China, to reflect the latest research.