From OEMs to Tier 1 suppliers, the industry faces the EU Battery Regulation, CBAM and supply chain due diligence.
Paint shops and furnaces are Scope 1. Grid electricity for assembly lines is Scope 2. Raw materials, steel, aluminium, plastics, electronics, represent 70-85% of an automotive company's footprint under Scope 3. Dcycle calculates all three per plant, per product line, or at group level.
Automotive supply chains run deep: raw materials, components, sub-assemblies across dozens of countries. Dcycle's supplier portal collects environmental data from your Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, validates responses against emission factor databases, and gives you auditable Scope 3 numbers.
Know the carbon footprint of each vehicle, component or battery pack you produce. Dcycle performs Life Cycle Assessments aligned with ISO 14040/14044, comparing materials, processes and suppliers to optimise product design and meet EU Battery Regulation requirements.
CSRD affects most large automotive companies in Europe and is cascading through their supply chains. Dcycle automates double materiality assessments, maps your manufacturing data to ESRS standards, and generates XBRL-compliant reports.
Emissions per vehicle produced, energy intensity per plant, waste recycling rates, water consumption by facility, Dcycle calculates and visualises the operational KPIs that manufacturing and sustainability teams need. Customisable dashboards for plant managers and the board.
EU Battery Regulation, CBAM, CSRD, national reporting obligations, Dcycle consolidates all your data into the reports each regulation requires. One data collection, multiple outputs.
70–75%
reduction in time-to-report
x3
increase in data coverage
<11 months
to payback
Automotive is the one sector where CSRD is not the odd one out: plenty of groups and large Tier 1s clear the threshold. But five other things arrive first, and most of them arrive through the bill of materials rather than through a filing.
Volkswagen, BMW and Stellantis put their own ESG requirements on suppliers, and Catena-X is turning that into a standing data exchange rather than an annual questionnaire. The answer stops being a spreadsheet you send and becomes a figure per part that has to hold up when someone pulls the thread.
A carbon footprint declaration per battery model, plus the battery passport data. It is calculated per kWh over the cells, the pack and the housing, which means your cell supplier's numbers become your compliance problem, not just your cost problem.
The definitive regime is in force and it reaches automotive through the metal, not through the vehicle. If your press shop buys imported coil, the embedded emissions of that coil now carry a price, and the supplier data you need to declare it is the same data your Scope 3 already asks for.
The directive names your customer, not you, which is exactly why the due diligence questionnaire lands on your desk: environmental and human rights risks per site and per input, documented. The supplier structure you build for Scope 3 carries the same evidence.
The one nobody in this sector expects. Rubber is a regulated commodity and leather is a cattle derivative, so tyres and trim pull automotive into deforestation-free due diligence, with geolocation of the plot of origin. It reaches you through two parts you have never thought of as agricultural.
Here the threshold is not theoretical. Groups and large Tier 1s clear it, and the ones that do not still feel it, because the customer who does needs their figure. Either way the data you gather is the same, which is the only reason one collection can serve all six lines of this list.
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