Socio-technical factors influencing current trends in material throughput in the UK automotive industry

Cooper, Simone; Doody, Brendan J.; Allwood, Julian M.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.04.014

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“…Furthermore, most of the studies are conducted in countries with strong economic power or a strong gross domestic product [53]. The study also considers only private consumers, but recent studies also point to a relevant EV market potential for commercial vehicles [41,65]. The study does not strictly differentiate between the various types of EVs.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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Identifying Factors Associated with Consumers’ Adoption of e-Mobility—A Systematic Literature Review

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Electrification of road transport—replacing internal combustion engine vehicles with new energy vehicles such as electric vehicles (EVs)—seems to be a promising step towards achieving sustainable urban development, yet the diffusion of EVs is proceeding slowly. Investigating this phenomenon, researchers have provided numerous findings. However, these findings also created a fragmented and heterogeneous body of literature. This article applies a systematic literature review to establish a status quo of factors associated with the adoption of EVs. A total of 49 articles were identified and analyzed in detail for their contribution to EV adoption. The results from the systematic literature review were synthesized. The article ends with implications for policymakers and suggests fruitful research avenues for future investigations.

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Identifying Factors Associated with Consumers’ Adoption of e-Mobility—A Systematic Literature Review

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“…Additional indirect impacts on socio-economic development come from the facts that road vehicles require extensive road infrastructure to operate, that road vehicle production is an important driver of demand of metals and other materials (e.g. rubber) (Cooper, Doody and Allwood, 2017), and that the automotive industry is also a major consumer of energy. Both vehicle and energy production, along with the construction and maintenance of the infrastructure they require, are also important sources of direct and indirect employment (ILO, 2018).…”

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Cleaner Vehicles

2021

International Transport Forum Policy Papers

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interoperable across borders, future-proof and backward-compatible. Additional opportunities to address congestion effectively can come from ensuring that user charging can be location-and time-specific.Include infrastructure for easy access to clean energy and digital connectivity of road transport in Covid-19 recovery packages Covid-19 recovery packages should support the roll-out of charging infrastructure and the strengthening of electricity transport networks. Electric vehicles will become increasingly cost-competitive and prevalent, and providing charging points aligns well with the post-pandemic focus on publically-funded infrastructure. Public investment is also vital for electric road systems and could support hydrogen refuelling solutions, provided that prospects for cost reductions and low-carbon production improve. Covid-19 recovery funds for connected transport infrastructure to enable smart road user charging, geo-fencing and other applications can also support a resilient transition to low-carbon vehicles and energy.Prepare for the impact of the sustainable mobility transition on jobs, required skill sets and social equity Governments need to strengthen their ability to assess the wider impacts of the concurrent shift towards electrification, renewable energy, digitalisation and automation. Improving their foresight capacity will also give them a better understanding of socio-economic consequences and, for instance, help to anticipate the impact on jobs and required skills. Developing policies and programmes for training and upskilling will be crucial to ensuring that affected workers are adequately supported and that the benefits of the transition to sustainable mobility are shared among all citizens. This is a vast challenge. Addressing it is likely to require significant budget allocations. Funding could come from tax reforms, such as the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) and the introduction of a global minimum corporate income tax for multinational enterprises. Accelerate the development of other low-carbon technologiesTechnological progress for low-carbon technologies other than direct electrification is still in need of a boost to reach greater readiness levels. Accelerating progress for bringing low-carbon hydrogen, synthetic fuels and other forms of carbon-neutral fuels as well as some low-carbon sustainable biofuels to market can help to decarbonise legacy vehicles. They are also crucial to help cutting the carbon footprint of hardto-decarbonise transport modes such as aviation and shipping and may be necessary in cases that are most challenging to electrify in long-haul trucking. Support efforts should focus on the low-carbon technologies with the strongest sustainability impact and the highest potential to compete on cost with direct electrification. This support is important to mitigate asset and job stranding as well as geopolitical impacts on sectors like oil and gas that are particularly exposed to the shift to electrification and renewable ener...

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“…On the other hand, studies that examined why the adoption of material efficiency strategies is limited have most often adopted a "techno-economic" analytical framework. In this type of studies, companies and decisionmakers are considered as perfectly informed and rational, and decisions regarding material use are mainly determined by cost considerations [21].…”

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“…For example, socio-technical studies have explained how designers and car manufacturers are influenced by the operational context in which they operate, which has important implications for the use of materials in the automotive industry. Nevertheless, little research has been conducted on lock-in mechanisms that specifically prevent the adoption of material efficiency strategies by car manufacturers [21]. Our work aims to address this gap in the socio-technical literature by investigating the barriers to material efficiency in the automotive industry and through a qualitative survey in a French car manufacturer.…”

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Towards a sustainable material use in the automotive industry: Life Cycle Costing and socio-technical approach to material use

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Morel

Aggeri

2019

Matériaux & Techniques

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The purpose of the article is twofold. We first present a Life Cycle Costing methodology applied at different scales to compare between design options in terms of materials use: in an automobile vehicle part, a whole vehicle, and a car manufacturer’s portfolio. The Life Cycle Costs consider costs for different stakeholders, including environmental damage costs (supported by the civil society), fuel expenses (supported by the customer) and materials costs (supported by the car manufacturer). The second objective of the article is to bring a management and socio-technical vision to the issue of material use in the automobile industry, in order to challenge the idea that all decisions regarding material use depend on purely technical and economic criteria. Through a qualitative research, we investigated the barriers to material efficiency and integrating the environmental criterion in decision making from a French car manufacturer’s perspective. Within the same company, we also collected material experts’ feedbacks on the LCC tool developed in the first Part, both in terms of methodology and potential integration in decision-making.

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Socio-technical factors influencing current trends in material throughput in the UK automotive industry

Cited by 7 publications

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Identifying Factors Associated with Consumers’ Adoption of e-Mobility—A Systematic Literature Review

Identifying Factors Associated with Consumers’ Adoption of e-Mobility—A Systematic Literature Review

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Towards a sustainable material use in the automotive industry: Life Cycle Costing and socio-technical approach to material use

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