Joby Aviation Unveils First Annual Environmental, Social, Governance Report

Joby Avi­a­tion unveiled this week, its first annu­al Envi­ron­men­tal, Social, Gov­er­nance (ESG) Report. As part of the company’s com­mit­ment to pos­i­tive impact, Joby has released its first ESG report, acces­si­ble on Joby’s web­site, states a press release.

The Report, which cov­ers Joby’s progress through 2022, marks a first step for the com­pa­ny — along with the wider eVTOL indus­try — in “under­stand­ing the holis­tic impact of its man­u­fac­tur­ing and planned oper­a­tions. It also allows the com­pa­ny to gain a deep­er insight into areas for improve­ment as it grows.”

Form­ing the report was led by Claire Boland, Joby’s new­ly-appoint­ed Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Lead. The release states, “Boland brings a decade of exper­tise lead­ing multi­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions on strat­e­gy and exe­cu­tion of green­house gas mea­sure­ment and reduc­tion, sus­tain­able sourc­ing, and cir­cu­lar prod­uct devel­op­ment, includ­ing roles at PVH Cor­po­ra­tion and Pep­si­Co.”

Claire Boland

She com­ment­ed, “I’m delight­ed to join a com­pa­ny that is chang­ing the future of trans­porta­tion for the bet­ter while being trans­par­ent about how we impact the envi­ron­ment and local com­mu­ni­ties. Every team mem­ber at Joby touch­es a part of this report. It’s a first step that will help us build a robust plan of action to ensure the com­pa­ny pos­i­tive­ly impacts the envi­ron­ment, the peo­ple who work here and the larg­er com­mu­ni­ties we oper­ate in.”

The release con­tin­ues, “The Report includes pro­gram and per­for­mance met­rics across Safe­ty, Envi­ron­ment, Social, and Gov­er­nance top­ics. These include Joby’s approach to safe­ty strat­e­gy, the com­pa­ny and aircraft’s envi­ron­men­tal impact, team mem­ber demo­graph­ics, and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance struc­ture.”

It is believed this is the eVTOL industry’s first com­pre­hen­sive life cycle assess­ment (LCA) to include both man­u­fac­tur­ing and oper­a­tions, which was under­tak­en in part­ner­ship with the U.S. Depart­ment of Energy’s Nation­al Renew­able Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (NREL). 

At present, the LCA esti­mates the life cycle green­house gas impact of the Joby air­craft to be 1.5x small­er than an elec­tric car, assum­ing both vehi­cles are charged by 100 per­cent renew­able elec­tric­i­ty, used for com­mut­ing pur­pos­es and man­u­fac­tured at scale. Joby aims to con­tin­ue analysing the pro­ject­ed envi­ron­men­tal impact of its air­craft, while the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to devel­op its pro­duc­tion facil­i­ties and con­cept of oper­a­tions.

JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby explained, “We intend to do every­thing we can to accel­er­ate the avi­a­tion industry’s tran­si­tion to cli­mate-neu­tral flight. This report marks an impor­tant step towards a deep­er under­stand­ing of our envi­ron­men­tal foot­print and we look for­ward to build­ing on this foun­da­tion in the years ahead.”

Last month, Joby cel­e­brat­ed the pro­duc­tion launch at its Mari­na facil­i­ty in Cal­i­for­nia with the first air­craft built on the line, secured by a Spe­cial Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate from the FAA, allow­ing it to begin flight test­ing. The air­craft is expect­ed to be deliv­ered to Edwards Air Force Base as part of Joby’s con­tract with the U.S. Air Force worth up to USD131 mil­lion.

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