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Criticality Assessment of the Life Cycle of Passenger Vehicles Produced in China

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China is globally the largest and a rapidly growing market for electric vehicles. The aim of the paper is to determine challenges related to criticality and environmental impacts of battery electric vehicles and internal combustion engine vehicles, focusing not only on a global but also the Chinese perspective, applying the ESSENZ method, which covers a unique approach to determine criticality aspects as well as integrating life cycle assessment results. Real industry data for vehicles and batteries produced in China was collected. Further, for the criticality assessment, Chinese import patterns are analyzed. The results show that the battery electric vehicle has similar and partly increased environmental impacts compared with the internal combustion engine vehicle. For both, the vehicle cycle contributes to a large proportion in all the environmental impact categories except for global warming. Further, battery electric vehicles show a higher criticality than internal combustion engine vehicles, with tantalum, lithium, and cobalt playing essential roles. In addition, the Chinese-specific results show a lower criticality compared to the global assessment for the considered categories trade barriers and political stability, while again tantalum crude oil and cobalt have high potential supply disruptions. Concluding, battery electric vehicles still face challenges regarding their environmental as well as criticality performance from the whole supply chain both in China and worldwide. One reason is the replacement of the lithium-ion power battery. By enhancing its quality and establishing battery recycling, the impacts of battery electric vehicle would decrease.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Circular Economy and Sustainability ; ISSN: 2730-5988 ; Volume: 1 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 435-455 ; Cham: Springer International Publishing

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Criticality
Resources
ESSENZ
Life cycle assessment
Environmental impacts
E-mobility

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sun, Xin
Bach, Vanessa
Finkbeiner, Matthias
Yang, Jianxin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer International Publishing
(wo)
Cham
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1007/s43615-021-00012-5
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Sun, Xin
  • Bach, Vanessa
  • Finkbeiner, Matthias
  • Yang, Jianxin
  • Springer International Publishing

Entstanden

  • 2021

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