Review of life cycle assessment for automobiles: A meta-analysis-based approach

Hiromu Oda, Hiroki Noguchi and Masaaki Fuse

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022, vol. 159, issue C

Abstract: The key considerations for advanced life cycle assessment (LCA) of automobiles leading to a low carbon economy are globalization in automobile life cycle, social expansion in new automobile technology, country diversity in automobile usage, and country factor in battery degradation of electric vehicle. This study was aimed at comprehensively reviewing automobile LCA studies using a meta-analysis-based approach. This approach was applied to 332 peer-reviewed papers from the comprehensive and specific perspectives. The specific perspective focuses on the above-mentioned globalization, social expansion, and country diversity aspects. The study findings revealed the progress and the limitations in automobile LCA studies. These progresses and limitations highlighted the urgency to expand the automobile LCA studies from technology assessment to system design, including policy making and decision-making related to governments and drivers. In addition, this review identified the upcoming challenges for advancing automobile LCA from the aspects of globalization, social expansion, country diversity, and battery degradation. These challenges could be overcome by considering global reuse across countries, the balance of in-use automobile demand and the infrastructure supply, and the International Vehicle Emission (IVE) model within a fleet-based LCA as the core of the LCA methodology.

Keywords: Automobile; Life cycle assessment; Globalization; Social expansion; Technology assessment; Battery degradation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112214

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