CATL extends its carbon target from factories to the battery supply chain
CATL says its core operations reached carbon neutrality in 2025 and that the wider battery value chain is now targeted for 2035.
- 2035
- 20
- 748 GWh
What Happened
CATL says it met its 2025 carbon-neutrality target for its own operating footprint. The company’s August 17 event in Ningde also set out a plan to address emissions across the battery value chain by 2035.
CATL reported that 20 factories carried the ISO 14068-1 zero-carbon designation by the end of 2025, while all electricity for its main operations came from zero-carbon sources. It produced 748 GWh of batteries in 2025, according to the company.
The broader programme reaches from mineral extraction through finished batteries. CATL attributes more than four-fifths of product life-cycle emissions to upstream suppliers, making cooperation across the industrial chain central to the target.
2035
CATL’s stated deadline for wider battery-chain carbon neutrality.
Why this matters
The next phase covers emissions from suppliers, transport, materials and recycling rather than only CATL’s own plants. The company says suppliers account for more than 80% of product life-cycle emissions.
Terms in This Story
- EV
- Electric vehicle, a vehicle powered fully or partly by electricity.
- GWh
- Gigawatt-hour, a large unit used to describe battery or energy capacity.
- kWh
- Kilowatt-hour, a unit often used for battery capacity or energy use.
- ADAS
- Advanced driver assistance systems, features that help the driver with safety or convenience tasks.
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