EZVOLT - EV CHARGING NETWORK CARBON CREDITS PROJECT

Audit Analysis

The EZVOLT EV charging project in Brazil has a verified additionality assessment and appropriate safeguards, but is undermined by a severe discrepancy between the PDD's lifetime emissions estimate (387,161 tCO₂e) and the validation report's figure (1,835 tCO₂e), a large grid emission factor inconsistency, and the absence of a stated buffer pool. The project's avoidance-based design (no carbon stock) limits permanence risk, yet the data contradictions raise material questions about the reliability of the underlying quantification.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠The PDD (Feb 2024) reports a lifetime ERR of 387,161 tCO₂e while the validation report (Mar 2025) reports only 1,835 tCO₂e — a 99.5% reduction that is unexplained in the extracted record and raises serious over-crediting or scope-change concerns.
• ⚠The grid emission factor differs by a factor of roughly 5,500 between the PDD (3.85 × 10⁻⁵) and the validation report (0.2126), with no unit clarification or reconciliation in the available documents.
• ⚠No buffer pool percentage is stated in any extracted document, leaving the permanence safeguard for this VCS project unquantified.

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