Electrify America

Does the core business genuinely avoid or reduce emissions, or build climate resilience? Share of revenue that is actually 'green'. Fossil-dependent models score low.

The core business unambiguously enables emission avoidance — the network delivered 374+ GWh in 2023, enabling an estimated 1.3 billion electric miles and avoiding roughly 52 million gallons of gasoline; however, the emission benefit is diluted because grid electricity is not always clean and the REC-backed '100% renewable' claim is partly paper-based, not hourly-matched.

Credible, science-based targets (SBTi), a real net-zero plan with progress to date, and CDP disclosure — not just a dated press release.

Electrify America has made a high-level 'net zero carbon footprint' pledge and uses RECs plus its Solar Glow 1 farm to back the claim, but there are no SBTi-validated science-based targets, no CDP questionnaire response found, no disclosed Scope 1/2/3 inventory with third-party assurance, and no credible pathway or timeline beyond the vague net-zero aspiration.

Operational footprint, labour and social practices, and governance quality across the company's own operations and supply chain.

EA scores some ESG credit for mandatory investments in low-income and disadvantaged communities, a $13M+ ZEV education fund, and a stated 100% supplier diversity commitment; it loses points for chronic station reliability failures that harm the EV user experience, a Dieselgate heritage that raises governance credibility questions, and no evidence of independently audited labor or supply-chain reporting.

Quality of disclosure, independent third-party verification, and how much hard data backs the company's claims.

Electrify America publishes annual reports to EPA and CARB under consent-decree obligations — providing useful operational data — but these are regulatory compliance filings, not voluntary sustainability disclosures; there is no independently assured GHG inventory, no TCFD/CSRD-aligned report, and no CDP submission found, making the 'net zero' and 'backed by 100% renewables' claims difficult to independently verify.

Controversies, litigation, pollution, fossil-fuel lobbying, conflict-zone involvement and governance scandals. Higher means cleaner.

Electrify America was created expressly as a penalty for Volkswagen's massive Dieselgate fraud — in which VW admitted installing defeat devices causing up to 40× excess NOx emissions in ~482,000 US vehicles — and the network itself has faced sustained, documented criticism for charger unreliability (including hardware fires and vehicles receiving excess power), requiring a $172M emergency replacement campaign in California; these foundational and operational integrity issues are material.