Tesla

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.

Tesla's products directly displace ICE combustion: in 2024 customers avoided ~32 million MTCO₂e — a 60% year-on-year increase — through EVs, solar, and energy storage, representing genuinely large-scale, measurable avoided emissions.

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

Tesla has no SBTi-validated targets, no published formal net-zero commitment year, does not fully disclose all 15 GHG Protocol Scope 3 categories, and Net Zero Tracker notes it lacks a publicly available implementation plan with a reporting mechanism — making its stated net-zero ambition structurally weak versus peers.

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

Tesla is the only major Western automaker with no collective bargaining agreement globally, no published living wage commitment, an Indigenous Peoples' rights score of 26%, a Delaware-court-criticized $56 billion CEO pay package with a board flagged as insufficiently independent, and an MSCI ESG rating downgraded to BB — below some tobacco companies.

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

Tesla publishes an annual Impact Report aligned with GRI standards and became the first automaker to disaggregate Scope 3 emissions by material category (steel, aluminum, batteries), but its GHG data lacks independent third-party assurance, key social metrics such as injury rates are not broken down by factory, and the company publicly criticizes GHG reporting frameworks — limiting the credibility of its disclosures.

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

Tesla faces a high volume of serious integrity controversies: multiple fatal Autopilot/FSD lawsuits with nine-figure jury verdicts, NHTSA audits for delayed crash reporting, cobalt supply chain child-labor risk flagged by Human Rights Watch, a Delaware court-voided CEO pay package re-ratified under governance concerns, alleged wastewater pollution at the Texas Gigafactory, and California regulators pursuing false advertising claims over FSD capabilities.