The impact of automotive industry and its supply chain to climate change: Somme techno-economic aspects

The purpose of the present paper is to present and discuss some techno-economic aspects of the impact of the automotive industry and its supply chain to climate change. In order to provide a well-structured estimate to this global concern nowadays, the authors will deal with the following: they will clearly define what is meant by climate change and will resume the origins, the extend and the contribution of the automotive vehicles to this phenomenon; they will give an account of the actual world-fleet of vehicles and of the expected increase of this fleet in the forthcoming future, taking into consideration the projected in the future contribution of the world-fleet of vehicles in climate change and of the actions that have been taken by regulation authorities to reduce this phenomenon by limiting the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as of other pollutants by newly produced vehicles; they will provide a comprehensive approach of well-to-wheel studies regarding emission and energy consumption mainly performed in the USA, Japan and in the European Union. The above studies will permit the authors to evaluate alternative technologies that the automotive industry is considering in order to comply with these regulations and to contribute in reducing the impact of vehicles in the environment and, subsequently, in the climate change. CO2 equivalent gas emissions of vehicles are expected to increase in the coming years and, consequently, the contribution of the transport sector to climate change will also increase. Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) constitute the technology to be adopted in order to reduce the contribution of vehicles to climate change. Given the multinational character of the automotive industry and of its suppliers, no major problems will appear in the introduction of new technology vehicles that are conceived to face the environment and climate change problems.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12544-013-0089-x
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 A. G. Mamalis et al.
• Authors:
  • Mamalis, A G
  • Spentzas, K N
  • Mamali, A A
• Publication Date: 2013-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1-10
• Serial:
  • European Transport Research Review
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing
  • ISSN: 1866-8887
  • EISSN: 1867-0717
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/12544
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Electric vehicles; Energy consumption; Motor vehicle industry; Pollutants
• Geographic Terms: European Union countries; Japan; United States
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01487727
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 2013 3:49PM