TY - JOUR
T1 - End-of-life (EOL) issues and options for electric vehicle batteries
AU - Ramoni, Monsuru Olalekan
AU - Zhang, Hong Chao
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Nearly all global players in the auto industry are now producing electric vehicles (EV). Many studies indicated that by year 2020, 6 millions could be sold in US alone and about 11 million worldwide. As the number of EVs increases, there is need to have well-defined end-of-life (EOL) strategy for the batteries removed from EVs as part of collective efforts to transform the auto industry to environmental friendly industry. Recycling has been proposed as the EOL option for the EV batteries, but there are many issues that make recycling less justifiable, this paper lays out those issues and proposes remanufacturing as the alternate and appropriate EOL option. In view of this, the paper details research issues which require thorough studies to make EV batteries remanufacturing feasible and effective.
AB - Nearly all global players in the auto industry are now producing electric vehicles (EV). Many studies indicated that by year 2020, 6 millions could be sold in US alone and about 11 million worldwide. As the number of EVs increases, there is need to have well-defined end-of-life (EOL) strategy for the batteries removed from EVs as part of collective efforts to transform the auto industry to environmental friendly industry. Recycling has been proposed as the EOL option for the EV batteries, but there are many issues that make recycling less justifiable, this paper lays out those issues and proposes remanufacturing as the alternate and appropriate EOL option. In view of this, the paper details research issues which require thorough studies to make EV batteries remanufacturing feasible and effective.
KW - EOL strategy
KW - EV battery
KW - Recycling
KW - Remanufacturing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84891903678&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10098-013-0588-4
DO - 10.1007/s10098-013-0588-4
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84891903678
VL - 15
SP - 881
EP - 891
JO - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
JF - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
SN - 1618-954X
IS - 6
ER -