Abstract
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.
Highlights
In a world with limited resources, sustainability has become a key concept nowadays in carrying out any type of activity
This study aims to highlight the degree of analysis of electric vehicles over time and how much previous research focused on identifying their impact on the environment
The scientific community has turned its attention to this topic, which is confirmed by publications that are based on a link between the electric vehicle industry and the environment more and more increased lately
Summary
In a world with limited resources, sustainability has become a key concept nowadays in carrying out any type of activity. This contribution can be useful to several groups of interest: vehicle manufacturers by broadening their horizons in order to reduce the impact on the "targeted" environment in phases that require increased attention, regulators - the new results can be a support for the creation of programs and legislative projects which can come both in support of producers and consumers, as well as in support of other actors involved - waste collection companies, treatment, recycling companies. In order to live in a sustainable mother nature is foremost to understand the effect of our actions and to estimate on long term perspective the impact on environment
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