Japanese automaker Toyota – one of the largest and most successful car companies in the world – now finds itself sharing space with major oil and gas companies as one of the “world’s most obstructive companies on climate policy” in 2022.and its fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles to learn that it ranks near Chevron and Exxon Mobil when it comes to its overall climate policy footprint.
InfluenceMap suggests it's using reliable and evidence-based data and assessments, along with rigorous methodologies to determine how companies are handling climate policy. The company's goal is to encourage change, which could help solve the environmental crisis across the globe. Clearly, there's some environmental advocacy here, so we take it with a grain of salt, but we do know that Toyota has built this reputation for itself over year and years.
Toyota has gone so far as to admit publicly that it's not going to move quickly with electric car development and production. Its executives continue to insist that people don't want EVs, and they're now saying that since Toyota produces so many hybrids , it makes up for its lack of EVs. To take it even further, the company recently noted that its hybrids may actually be helping more than electric cars to curb climate change.