scholarly journals Life Cycle Based CO2Emission Credits: Options for Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Current Tailpipe Emissions Regulation in the Automotive Industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1066-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annekatrin Lehmann ◽  
Markus Berger ◽  
Matthias Finkbeiner
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

Beyond Life Cycle Assessment, an Integrative Design for Environment Approach for the Automotive Industry

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Hockerts ◽  
Stephanie Adda ◽  
Helene Teulon ◽  
David Dowdell ◽  
Neil Kirkpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Design For Environment ◽  
Integrative Design

scholarly journals Are electric vehicles eco-friendly products? A review from life cycle and sustainability perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 343 ◽  
pp. 07002
Author(s):  
Niculina Alexandra Grigore ◽  
Claudiu Vasile Kifor
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Use Phase

Industry, especially the automotive industry is permanently changing and adapting to the external and internal factors. The appearance of the new types of vehicles – electric vehicles, is a big and important step not only regarding the evolution of the product, but also regarding the advantages of reducing environmental impact. It is promoted the idea that an electric vehicle generates less direct emissions in use phase compared with a conventional one. If we limit to this, we could say that we are dealing with an eco-friendly type of vehicle. The question is, can we extend this idea to the other stages of the life cycle? What about the sustainability of the industry? This article highlights the methods of environmental impact assessment used by researchers for electric vehicles in terms of life cycle and sustainability. The findings of this systematic review demonstrate that even if are a large number of articles addressing electric vehicles, only a small number of them evaluate the electric vehicle from life cycle and sustainability point of view.

scholarly journals МЕТОДИЧНІ ЗАСАДИ ОЦІНЮВАННЯ КОНКУРЕНТОСПРОМОЖНОСТІ АВТОМОБІЛЕБУДІВНИХ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ У КОНТЕКСТІ ФОРМУВАННЯ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ СТРАТЕГІЇ РОЗВИТКУ АВТОМОБІЛЕБУДУВАННЯ

2019 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Інна Юріївна Шевченко
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Automotive Company ◽  
Industry Competitiveness ◽  
The Government

An important part of domestic machine-building sector is the automotive industry represented mainly by car, truck and bus manufacturing. It is hardly a secret nowadays that the Ukrainian automotive industry is facing tough times, thus failing to withstand strong competition from foreign car manufacturers. In this context, as never before, the issue to enhance the government support of domestic automakers is of a critical importance. It is expected that the implementation of government strategy for automotive industry development will have different effects at discrete automotive companies subject to their different competitiveness level. Hence, there is a need to conduct a research on developing a methodological toolkit for the automotive company competitiveness evaluation. The research objective is to construct a methodological framework to assess automotive manufacturers’ competitiveness in the context of building the government strategy to enhance the automotive industry development. The study has employed the following methods: a monographic method and the method of theoretical generalization to identify the most widely used methodological approaches to company competitiveness assessment; a method of analysis and synthesis for elaborating a methodology to assess the automotive industry competitiveness in the context of building the government strategy for automotive industry development. Based on the combination of integral and matrix approaches, an evaluation framework to estimate the automotive company competitiveness has been designed. The method suggested, in contrast to other techniques described in academic literature, allows for the identification of car manufacturers competitiveness by integral indices values along with revealing the stages of their life cycle. The synthesis of the results of automakers competitiveness estimation and identification of the stages in their life cycle laid the foundation for the construction of the automotive industry development matrix which in turn is the basis for tailoring of government strategy to enhance the automotive industry development. Working out a set of methodological tools to evaluate the competitiveness of the automotive industry contributes to further development of methodical framework of government regulation in terms of facilitating the automotive industry competitiveness towards its focus differentiation, thus increasing the managerial effectiveness.

scholarly journals Comparative life cycle assessment of carbon fiber reinforced compositecomponents for automotive industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archimede Forcellese ◽  
Tommaso Mancia ◽  
Michela Simoncini ◽  
Serena Gentili ◽  
Marco Marconi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Environmental Loads ◽  
Autoclave Curing ◽  
Manufacturing Time

Advanced materials, especially carbon fiber reinforced composites (CFRP), have gained the attention of different industries whichproduce lightweight and high-performance components. The most used manufacturing processes to realize these kinds of products are Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) and vacuum bag molding with autoclave curing. RTM is based on dry fiber technology and it appears the most promising manufacturing process to realized high-quality carbon fiber parts reducing cost and manufacturing time, especially if high pressure variants are employed. On the other hand, vacuum bag molding with autoclave curing is a very consolidated process which is, however, associated with long manufacturing time and costs as well as to low repeatability of the process due to the high labor input. Out-of-autoclave methods, such as pressure bag molding (PBM) have been developed to overcome the issues of vacuum bag molding process. From the environmental point of view, the manufacturing of CFRP components is associated with high environmental loads due to the impacts related to both raw materials and manufacturing processes. For this reason, reducing the energy consumption of production phases can lead to the development of greener CFRP products. In this context, the main scope of the present research is to evaluate and compare the environmental loads of a component for the automotive industry realized exploiting the RTM, the PBM and the bag molding processes to determine which one is eco-friendlier. This analysis has been conducted following the standard Life Cycle Assessment methodology based on a “cradle to gate” approach. In this way, the use phase and the disposal of the CFRP component have not been included in the analysis. Results have been evaluated by comparing the equivalent CO2 related to each manufacturing process.

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