Both companies are tied at 28/100 on SINK.
Both companies are tied at 28/100 on SINK.
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.
Volkswagen scores 28/100 on SINK (Significant gaps). Volkswagen's footprint was 887.4 Mt CO2e in 2025, up from 828.5 Mt in 2024. The rise is mostly its engines unit Everllence, whose use-phase emissions went from 48.92 to 177.83 Mt; car and van use-phase emissions fell from 297.97 to 279.15 Mt. Purchased electricity for plants outside China was 95% renewable, but 5.2 of the 6.1 million MWh it generated itself was non-renewable. Its Scope 1 and 2 target is SBTi-validated at 1.5°C and already met; its use-phase target is per vehicle-km, so absolute emissions can still rise. InfluenceMap finds it advocated weakening the EU's car CO2 targets in 2025 and backed weaker US CAFE standards in 2026.
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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