The Influence of Low Carbon Emission Engine on the Life Cycle of Automotive Products: A Case Study of Three-Cylinder Models in the Chinese Market

Meixia Pan, Wanming Chen, Shengyuan Wang () and Xiaolan Wu
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Meixia Pan: Business School, Nanjing XiaoZhuang University, Nanjing 211171, China
Wanming Chen: School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Shengyuan Wang: Business School, Nanjing XiaoZhuang University, Nanjing 211171, China
Xiaolan Wu: Business School, Nanjing XiaoZhuang University, Nanjing 211171, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 18, 1-15

Abstract: There is a development trend for fuel vehicles to adopt low-carbon emission engines. The sales of cars with low-carbon three-cylinder engines in the Chinese market have declined. Is the life cycle of automotive products with three-cylinder engines entering a recession stage? In order to achieve this research objective, which is to investigate whether assembling a three-cylinder engine affects the life cycle of an automotive product, this paper constructs an ecological theory-based approach to measuring the life cycle of automotive products. First, the logistic model is used to measure the intrinsic growth rate, internal inhibition coefficient, and theoretical upper limit of product sales scale before and after the automotive products are equipped with three-cylinder engines. In the second stage, the Lotka–Volterra model is used to calculate the intrinsic growth rate, internal inhibition coefficient, theoretical upper limit, and symbiosis coefficient of the sales scale of the products before and after the three-cylinder engine, taking the Chinese automobile manufacturing enterprises as an example for empirical analysis. The research results show that the selection of three- cylinder engine for automotive products will not lead to the product life cycle entering the recession period ahead of time.

Keywords: three-cylinder engine; logistic model; Lotka-Volterra model; life cycle assessment; automobile manufacturing enterprise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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