In early April, Toyota’s Dealership Environmental Excellence Program (D.E.E.P.) was acknowledged with a Department of Energy (DOE) Better Practice Award. DOE’s prestigious Better Project and Better Practice awards acknowledge companions for modern and industry-leading accomplishments implementing decarbonization, power and water effectivity, or waste discount initiatives.
D.E.E.P. is a voluntary, easy-to-implement program designed to assist dealerships cut back power, water, waste, carbon emissions and operational prices. It offers technical help to Toyota and Lexus dealerships to measurably enhance environmental efficiency and acknowledges sellers that display vital reductions in power and water use whereas partaking with their native communities.
The program started as a pilot in 2021 with 12 U.S. Toyota dealerships and launched nationwide for all Toyota and Lexus dealerships in 2023. There at the moment are 75 Toyota and Lexus sellers collaborating in D.E.E.P. throughout the U.S., and we purpose to have over 100 sellers collaborating by mid-2026.
Toyota is actively inviting extra North American dealerships to enter this system to assist us ship on our dedication to enhance the environmental impacts of our seller gross sales operations and drive optimistic impacts for society.
Participating Toyota and Lexus D.E.E.P. dealerships throughout the U.S.
Nationwide participation is rising with 70 Toyota and 5 Lexus dealerships at the moment enrolled in D.E.E.P.1 Cumulatively,2 these dealerships have:
- Saved12,057 MWh of power, which is equal to the annual power use of 1,150 houses.3
- Avoided8,815 metric tons of CO2e,
- Saved 2 million gallons of water.
For extra details about D.E.E.P. and the dealerships acknowledged via this system for his or her environmental management, go to our D.E.E.P. website.
1 As of March 2024
2 Cumulative knowledge factors are from April 2021 (when D.E.E.P. launched) to March 2024.
3 https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator