While Elon Musk may have pioneered the trend his feelings about electric cars arent completely unique. In 2016 the RenaultNissan alliance began thirdparty assessment of suppliers sustainability activities to raise standards through mutual confirmation.
The automobile manufacturing industry has been selected as an example in that project and is the focus of this work as well. According to Statista over 1.93 million electric vehicles were in use worldwide in 2017 up from 1.18 million in 2016. This paper addresses the environmental burdens energy consumption and air emissions including greenhouse gases GHGs of the material production assembly and recycling of automotive lithiumion batteries in hybrid electric plugin hybrid electric and battery electric vehicles BEV that use LiMn2O4 cathode material. value which is defined as the batteries endoflife criterion in a car . Sharing electric vehicles is the most sustainable option for cities but do we know where the energy for recharging them comes from? The problem of pollution in big cities continues to make the news. A BCG analysis found that the economics of EV battery recycling at scale are . The APEC economy is the largest new vehicle market in the world and the . In addition to their sustainability electric cars also have a lower running cost which compensates for the initial high costs. 3 Boren Sven and Henrik Ny. Hybrid electric vehicles are found to have the highest. 17 conducting the study from a Chinese perspective and Liu and Wei 18 .