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The third version of our report reveals that despite notable progress in some areas by automakers, the industry overall is making slow and inadequate progress on cleaning up its supply chains. The results of this year's Leaderboard demonstrate that automakers must act now to radically transform their supply chains to deliver truly clean and just electric vehicles.
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What is Lead the Charge?

Lead the Charge is a diverse network of organizations working to transform auto supply chains. Since 2023, our annual leaderboard has evaluated 18 of the world’s leading automakers on their progress in eliminating emissions, environmental harms, and human rights violations from their supply chains.

What is a clean car?

A truly clean car is not only electric, and therefore free from tailpipe emissions, but is one that is also built with a fossil-free supply chain that has the lowest possible impact on biodiversity, resource depletion and ecosystem resilience, and that respects the rights of Indigenous Peoples, workers, and local communities.

Current state of progress

This year’s analysis shows the industry continues to make steady progress. However, despite three years of evaluation, no automaker has achieved even a 50% score on clean supply chains. The industry average stands at just 22%. While companies are making promises, they’re falling dangerously short on actual implementation.

Slow Progress Puts People and Planet at Risk

This year showed steady progress: the total average score across all 18 automakers rose by 3 percentage points in the 2025 edition compared to the previous year.

However, progress by the industry as a whole is lackluster when compared to the scale of the challenge ahead. After an initial flurry of progress by multiple automakers on steel and aluminum decarbonization last year, automaker performance in this area has largely stagnated. Further, despite some notable progress by several automakers, over 50% of companies did not improve their performance at all on Indigenous Peoples rights or workers’ rights.

For the third year in a row, no automaker has achieved even a 50% score on clean supply chains, with the leader reaching just 43%.

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The Race To Zero

Let's see which automakers are ahead of the pack on the way to zero. While even the leaders have a long way to go – with no company scoring above 50% – you can compare how different automakers stack up or see who's leading and lagging in key categories.

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Select up to five automakers to compare their progress on building truly clean and equitable cars.

The industry can, and must, do better.

The current picture of spotty performance across different issues provides opportunities for companies to radically improve their scores by replicating best practices: over half of the indicators are fully met by at least one company and companies could increase their scores to over 70% by matching the practices of their highest performing peers across different areas.

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