So, what exactly is Ethical Car Consumerism?

It means buying cars that isn't doing any impact to the environment, the human society, animals,  exploitation humans, or even human labor. 

Ethical cars means using the right things to make a car like reuse-using things like metal, and the rubber tiers, and other metal things they find. This goes with the rubber too, these parts come from the junkyard. 

Pollution

In order to reduce the pollution, EU 6 standards and US emission test to reduce harmful pollutants from vehicle exhausts, particularly nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matter (PM). In order to meet the stringent conditions, some Automotive companies make unethical cheat program to overcome the emission test results. VW diesel models could not pass US emissions tests without Cheat program, and deliberately sought to conceal their use.In April 2017, a US federal judge ordered Volkswagen to pay a $2.8 billion criminal fine for "rigging diesel-powered vehicles to cheat on government emissions tests". As of 1 June 2020, the scandal had cost VW $33.3 billion in fines, penalties, financial settlements and buyback costs.

VW Diesel Emission gate scandal

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Committee on Climate Change attributed the increase in car emissions to both an increase in the number of kilometres driven and an increase in the average CO2 intensity of cars. In order to reduce their impacts by around 2% per year to limit climate change, it is important for individuals to drive less, drive better and opt for a lower-impact car.

All car companies lose marks under Ethical Consumer's climate change category for their role in selling products that emit CO2. Several companies also lose marks for other activities in the wider group: Honda for example is involved in aviation, and Toyota owns a company which is involved in the oil and gas energy sector. 

According to a new report by Greenpeace East Asia and Greenpeace Germany, carbon footprint of global car industry equals 9% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2018.

Environmental Reporting

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly important construct for corporate strategies, notably in the automotive industry.

Car companies perform against two key ethical issues: their commitments to phase out diesel and their ambitions to convert all their models to electric. In order for companies to have shown a reasonable understanding of their environmental impacts, Ethical Consumer required them to have targets on these commitments. Toyota and Fiat Chrysler were the only two companies not to lose marks, since they both had these and also met the other criteria for Ethical Consumer's best ranking, such as having their reports independently verified. 

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