Toyota Motor Corporation — Ethics Grade C+

Toyota Motor Corporation receives an overall ethics grade of C+ (58/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Automotive. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 65
• privacy: 80
• consumer: 40
• environment: 35
• humanRights: 60

Documented incidents (3)

• Safety Test Falsification (high, 2023) — Subsidiary Daihatsu admitted to rigging side-collision safety tests for 88,000 small cars. Further investigation revealed decades of systematic fraud in safety testing, leading to a total production halt in Japan.
• Lobbying Against EV Mandates (medium, 2021) — Toyota was ranked by InfluenceMap as the most obstructive company globally on climate policy in the automotive sector, due to its lobbying efforts to delay the transition to electric vehicles and weaken fuel economy standards.
• Truck Emissions Fraud (medium, 2022) — Toyota's truck-making unit, Hino Motors, admitted to falsifying emissions and fuel economy data dating back as far as 2003, affecting over 600,000 vehicles in Japan.

Documented good deeds

• Mainstreaming Hybrid Tech — Toyota pioneered the mass market for hybrid vehicles with the Prius, significantly reducing the carbon footprint of millions of drivers over two decades.

Ethical alternatives

• Honda Motor Co. — Has shown more historical transparency in recalls and a clearer data reporting path than recent Toyota subsidiaries.