Scoring the world’s automakers
on their EV supply chains

This is the fourth annual Leaderboard documenting progress towards equitable, sustainable and fossil-free electric vehicle (EV) supply chains. The Leaderboard evaluates 18 of the world’s leading automakers on their efforts to eliminate emissions, environmental harms, and human rights violations from their supply chains.

This year’s analysis shows that even cleaner EVs — built with decarbonised materials, circular practices and a human rights-respecting supply chain — are within reach. The best-in-class score now stands at 86%, a level of performance any automaker could achieve by emulating practices already in place across the industry. The average score across all 18 companies has also risen for the third year in a row.

Industry leaders are pulling further ahead. Since the Leaderboard launched, Tesla, Ford, Volvo, Mercedes and Volkswagen have improved at twice the rate of their peers. While many automakers continue to limit their supply chain practices to standardized, one-size-fits-all approaches, leaders are increasingly pursuing more targeted, material-specific strategies with greater potential for real-world impact.

Yet overall progress remains far too slow. For the fourth consecutive year, no automaker has scored above 50%, and the overall average sits at just 25%. Some companies have even gone backwards on ambition and transparency. With clear pathways and proven models of best practice now in place, continued underperformance is a choice.

See how automakers stack up below or use the links to dive deeper into the results and the performance of individual companies.