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GM Ranks Eighth On 2024 Lead The Charge Supply Chain Leaderboard

GM has placed eighth for the second year in a row on the Leaderboard of “cleaner automotive supply chains” put out by Lead the Charge.

This rating measures both environmental factors such as reducing ecological damage and success in cutting emissions, as well as avoiding supply sources involving human rights violations, with GM placing just above the middle of the pack, according to the Lead the Charge site.

The GM lineup of Ultium EVs.

Focusing on EVs – with Lead the Charge noting its position by stating “the transition to electric vehicles is now inevitable – and that’s a good thing” – the Leaderboard measures how successful the organization deems each of 18 major automakers are at removing fossil fuel use and developing environmental sustainability in their EV supply chains.

While GM retained its eighth-place position in both 2023 and 2024, some of its competitors have improved markedly. Tesla was in ninth place last year, behind The General, but has now advanced to third. First place is held by Ford, with the 2023 winner, Mercedes, dropping back to second. General Motors didn’t change its ranking, but still improved its measures of building a cleaner EV supply chain by 7 percent.

A GM vehicle, the Chevy Silverado EV, charging.

Zooming in on the specifics, GM rated 19 percent for “fossil-free and environmentally sustainable supply chains.” For “human rights and responsible sourcing” it achieved a rating of 26 percent. Overall, its score was 22 percent. This compares to Ford’s first-place rating of 42 percent and, below it, a range of automakers in Asia as well as ninth-place Renault at 19 percent.

Lead The Charge also pegged The General’s EV sales at 13 percent, significantly more than the 3 percent electrified sales by Ford during the same period despite the Blue Oval’s much cleaner supply chain.

Front three quarters view of the GMC Hummer EV SUV.

Notably, a recent study of “greener cars” named the GMC Hummer EV – including its GMC Hummer EV Pickup and GMC Hummer EV SUV configurations – as the worst mass-market EVs in terms of environmental impact.

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  1. Who is “Lead the Charge” and why should we care about their rankings?

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    1. Because they think EVs are inevitable without accounting for any possibility that buyers may be completely resistant to buying them if the technology and costs don’t coincide with what ICEs are capable of. I couldn’t care less if my state banned ICEs. I will drive 1.5 hours to PA and buy an ICE if need be. And if they decide to make it difficult to register an ICE then at that point its high time to move out of NJ before the overreach starts reaching into our democracy and personal liberties.

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  2. This is ridiculous and means nothing to me. GM needs to focus on getting better suppliers with better quality products and improving the overall quality of their existing vehicles before they spend time and energy on silly stuff like this. They may think that the EV transition is inevitable but their customers don’t agree and GM should be listening to their customers rather than Old Joe.

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