Vehicle Remanufacturing: Economic and Environmental Expansion of the Life Cycle
Technical Paper
2016-01-1291
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Abstract
Applying the Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIOLCA) method to the
question of fielding newly manufactured or remanufactured vehicles provides an
illuminating view of the economic and environmental advantages of
remanufacturing. Sustained accomplishments of policy and engineering have
reduced vehicle emissions such that current work has reached the point of
diminishing returns. The macroeconomic, global, unprecedented,
debt-supercycle-combined with increasing costs of natural resource extraction
and vehicle production-demands improved asset and resource utilization.
Expanding and exploiting the entire vehicle life cycle is a profitable and
sustainable extension of work to date; such extension calls for remanufacturing
to move from vehicle components to the entire vehicle. Stretching service
lifetimes delay traditional end-of-life recovery practices while radically
challenging the status quo. Mainstream remanufacturing will affect entire
industries including insurance, licensing, and financing as they incorporate
remanufactured vehicles in a new narrative and expanded life cycle. Objective
decisions about production, acquisition, and regulation should include
considerations for not only the life cycle but extending it as well. While there
is much future work to be done in this area, this paper opens the discussion
about the economic and environmental advantages of enterprise-level vehicle
remanufacturing. In this work, the EIOLCA Method, with the United States 2002
Benchmark Producer Price Model, provides the mechanism to explore the economic
and environmental impact of equal amounts of economic activity for traditional
vehicle manufacturing and novel vehicle remanufacturing.
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Latham, G., "Vehicle Remanufacturing: Economic and Environmental Expansion of the Life Cycle," SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-1291, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-1291.Also In
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