Toyota Motor scores 5 points higher than Tesla, Inc. on SINK.
Toyota Motor is more sustainable according to SINK's scores, scoring 28/100 vs Tesla, Inc.'s 23/100, a difference of 5 points.
Tesla, Inc. scores 23/100 on SINK (Significant gaps). Tesla's absolute emissions are rising: Scope 3 grew 14% from 2023 to 2025 and Scope 1 rose 43% over the same period, while it highlights emissions its customers avoid. Its 2040 net-zero target has no near-term milestone or SBTi validation, renewable matching is partial (100% in Berlin, 28% in Texas), and its Fremont factory has a long record of air-quality violations.
Toyota Motor scores 28/100 on SINK (Significant gaps). Toyota's footprint was 513,981 kt CO2e in the year to March 2026, down from 589,573 kt, but most of the drop comes from narrowing the boundary to exclude Toyota-brand vehicles made outside its consolidated group. It reports 51% renewable electricity against a 2030 target of 80%. Its Scope 1 and 2 target is SBTi-approved at 1.5°C; its use-phase target is per vehicle, and it has no absolute Scope 3 target. In March 2025 a US court accepted a guilty plea from Hino Motors, then its subsidiary, over falsified emissions data and imposed penalties of over $1.6 billion. InfluenceMap finds it opposed vehicle GHG standards in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia and India.
Both companies are rated on the same 10-question SINK rubric: Scope 1/2/3 carbon footprint, energy source, nature and biodiversity, resource use, water, emissions trajectory, science-based targets, transparency, and controversies. Scores are 0–100, based on public data, and fully reproducible.
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