Plain-English summaries of how we handle your data, what you agree to by using the platform, and the U.S. legal framework around carbon credits. This page is informational and not legal advice.
We collect only what's necessary to verify trips, calculate net carbon impact, and route rewards. GPS routes, KYC, and payment details never go on-chain — only audit hashes do.
By creating an account, you agree to the following. These terms exist to keep the marketplace credible, fraud-free, and fair to every participant.
You must be 18+ and own or lease the EV you register. Vehicles registered to multiple accounts are flagged for review.
You agree to submit truthful trip, vehicle, and tire data. Falsified submissions can suspend your account and forfeit pending rewards.
GPS spoofing, manual-entry abuse, duplicate trips, and odometer manipulation are detected and rejected. Repeat violations trigger permanent suspension.
Verified net CO₂e from your trips contributes pro-rata to a platform-level credit batch. Aggregated credits are owned and listed by the platform; revenue shares to drivers per the published 80/20 split.
Reward payouts depend on (a) verified contribution to a sold batch, (b) the batch's sale price, and (c) successful settlement. Pending balances are not guaranteed payouts.
20% of every credit sale is retained by the platform for operations, methodology development, fraud forensics, and on-chain settlement costs.
Credits are environmental instruments. We make no representation of investment value, tax treatment, or future price.
You may close your account anytime. We may suspend accounts for ToS violations. Earned, settled rewards remain payable.
Informational summary, not legal advice. The U.S. lacks a single federal cap-and-trade system; instead, you'll find a patchwork of federal tax credits, state programs, voluntary registries, and federal anti-greenwashing rules. Here's the current landscape as of February 2026.
Provides a per-ton federal tax credit for qualified carbon oxide captured and sequestered. IRA 2022 raised the value to $85/ton (geological storage) and $60/ton (utilization). Applies to facilities — not directly to EV avoidance credits — but sets the federal price floor.
Allocates $369B to climate. Includes the Clean Vehicle Credit (§ 30D, up to $7,500 for qualifying EVs), Used Clean Vehicle Credit (§ 25E), and Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit (§ 45W). Does not directly regulate voluntary carbon markets but funds them via grants.
Allows EPA to regulate existing stationary sources of GHGs. Underpinned the former Clean Power Plan and current Carbon Pollution Standards for power plants (2024 final rule, in litigation as of 2026).
Federal Trade Commission rules against deceptive environmental marketing. Requires that carbon-offset claims be backed by actual reductions, with material penalties/limitations disclosed. Net-of-deduction accounting (like ours) materially aligns with the 2026 revisions.
Public companies must disclose material climate-related risks, GHG emissions (Scope 1 + 2 phased in), and any carbon offsets used to meet stated climate targets — including price paid, methodology, and registry. Currently subject to court challenges; partial stay in effect.
Voluntary carbon credits, when sold as derivatives, fall under CFTC anti-fraud jurisdiction. The CFTC has issued guidance on quality, additionality, permanence, and double-counting for VCC-derivatives listings.
Mandatory cap-and-trade for large emitters. Linked with Québec. Allows offsets up to 4–6% of compliance obligation from approved protocols (forestry, ozone-depleting substances, livestock, rice, mine methane).
Nation's first market-based cap on power-sector CO₂. Auctions allowances quarterly. Pennsylvania's participation under court challenge as of 2026.
Economy-wide cap-and-invest program covering ~75% of state emissions. Allows limited offsets from in-state and tribal projects.
Caps GHG from fossil-fuel suppliers and natural-gas utilities. Currently undergoing rulemaking after court remand.
Targets 40% GHG reduction by 2030, 85% by 2050 vs. 1990 baseline. DEC finalizing cap-and-invest program for 2026 launch.
Statutory 50% by 2030 / 90% by 2050 reductions. Sector-specific rules across electricity, transportation, oil & gas, industrial.
Largest voluntary registry. Methodology suite for energy, forestry, transport.
Co-founded by WWF. Sustainable Development Goals alignment required.
Subsidiary of Winrock International. CARB-approved for CA cap-and-trade.
U.S.-based. Forestry, agriculture, urban tree, livestock methane protocols.
Jurisdictional REDD+ standard for forest-loss-avoidance credits.
Engineered carbon-removal credits (biochar, BECCS, mineralization).
Quality-threshold framework for voluntary carbon credits (launched 2023).
Buyer-side claims framework: Silver / Gold / Platinum tiers.
EV-mileage avoidance credits are not currently a registered protocol under Verra, Gold Standard, or ACR. Our methodology is designed for forward compatibility with anticipated transport-sector voluntary methodologies, with full deduction transparency (grid + tire-wear + microplastic + charging losses) exceeding ICVCM Core Carbon Principles where applicable.
Every certificate shows gross savings, grid emissions, tire-wear penalty, charging-inefficiency, and net benefit. No greenwashing-by-omission.
Each batch immutably records the methodology version that minted it (currently v1.0). Old credits stay auditable forever.
on-chain burn-on-retire makes resale of retired credits cryptographically impossible. Each token represents a unique tCO₂e.
Corporate buyers complete identity verification at signup. Helps satisfy SEC climate disclosure requirements for offsets used in 10-K filings.
Every admin action, methodology change, and credit-batch decision is signed and timestamped. Retained for 7 years per regulatory standard.
Verifiers can independently review batches before tokenization. Pilot integrations with external auditors underway.
Information on this page summarizes laws and frameworks for educational purposes. Consult licensed counsel for compliance decisions.
Carbon credits are environmental instruments, not securities. We make no representation as to investment value, tax treatment, or future market price.
Methodology v1.0 is platform-internal. Credits are not registered with Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, or CAR unless explicitly stated on the batch certificate.
Carbon math relies on default factors (grid intensity, tire wear, ICE baseline). Per-trip estimates carry ±10–25% uncertainty bounds. Aggregated batches have lower error envelopes.
We will publish v1.1 (battery + brake-wear), v2.0 (registry alignment). Existing credits remain bound to the version that minted them.
The chain provides immutable ownership and retirement records. It is not the scientific source of truth — that's our verified accounting.