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Tata Motors

Known for Tata, Jaguar Land Rover

Tata Motors is a publicly listed auto manufacturer headquartered in Mumbai, India. In 2019 it had US$43.2 billion in revenue and sales of over 650,000 vehicles. Tata sells vehicles in most major markets. Its subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover’s biggest sales regions are Europe and North America, but also has substantial sales in China, through its 50:50 joint venture with Chinese automaker Chery. The Tata brand’s sales of light duty vehicles are almost fully in India.

Summary

Tata Motors Group has a performance score of 11.3 out of 20 against a well below 2-degree pathway. This is better than Tata’s 2019 performance score of 8.2, when Tata was assessed against the less ambitious 2-degree pathway. This assessment includes Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which is a subsidiary of Tata Motors Group and accounted for 74 percent of the Group’s light duty vehicle sales in 2019.

Since the previous assessment, the company has primarily improved in its low-carbon vehicle share. In 2017, the company sold no plug-in hybrids or battery electric vehicles, but by 2019 these accounted for 3 percent of Tata’s total vehicle sales. This is an improvement, but Tata still needs to have more low-carbon vehicles to be fully aligned with the well below 2-degree pathway. The company’s collective vehicle emissions intensity has decreased in recent years from a 194 grams CO2e per kilometre in 2014 to 164 grams CO2e per kilometre in 2019. This is still a high intensity and the company performed worse on this indicator than in the previous assessment, due to the more ambitious pathway used.

Total score: 11.3/20
Assessment Note: Tata Motors received a full ACT assessment in 2019.

Performance module name	Performance module score	Rank (0-30)
Targets	0.9 / 3	#12
Material Investment	0.4 / 0.4	#1
Intangible Investment	2.4 / 2.4	#1
Sold product performance	4.6 / 7	#8
Management	0.6 / 2.2	#16
Supplier	0.6 / 1.2	#4
Client	0.5 / 0.8	#9
Policy Engagement	0.8 / 1.2	#1
Business Model	0.5 / 1.8	#7

The company has however made impressive reductions in its manufacturing emissions through purchasing renewable electricity and developing its own solar and wind installations. Additionally, both Tata and JLR have established initiatives to reduce supply chain emissions, and both collect emissions data and use this to help guide purchasing decisions.

To guide its transition to the low-carbon economy, Tata should set improved emissions reduction targets. Tata’s targets, which do not include JLR, to reduce its scope 1 and 2 (manufacturing) emissions by 40 percent by 2020 and 70 percent by 2040 are not ambitious enough to be fully aligned with the well below 2-degree pathway. JLR’s separate targets only reach to 2020 and so cannot provide a meaningful indicator of JLR’s future climate ambition. Therefore, Tata could further enhance its climate performance by setting ambitious scope 3 targets validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative for its vehicle in-use emissions.

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More about the company

Headquarters: India
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Revenue (2019): US$43.2 billion
Number of vehicles sold (2019): 650,347
Website: https://www.tatamotors.com/