Heavy vehicles on the road towards the circular economy: Analysis and comparison with the automotive industry

Abstract

36 37• In-depth study reveals huge potential to develop CE solutions in the heavy vehicles sector. 38• Impacts of regulations, business models, and emerging technologies are analysed for CE performance. 39• Best industrial practices and remaining challenges are examined for a CE of light and heavy vehicles. 40• Streamlined, well-controlled dismantling, reuse and recycling are preferred options for the automotive industry. 41• Uneven but growing remanufacturing and loosely controlled exports are preferred options for the HDOR industry.42 43 44

Conceptualizing the Circular Economy: An Analysis of 114 Definitions

“…Science allows a maximum of 4500 words including references for a research article (Science, 2017). Meanwhile, this journal, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, allows 7000 words excluding references (RCR, 2017) with one recent CE definition presented in it, Saidani et al (2017), counting 112 words. We also hypothesize that authors may find some aspects of a concept so self-evident that they thus do not choose to include these aspects in their definition even if no space restrictions are faced.…”

Robust telematics health monitoring and dispatching management system based on IoT and M2M Technologies

“…For example, a study conducted in 2014 by the Equipment Manufacturers Association discovered that 62 percent of U.S. construction companies lacked any plan to apply such systems in the near future [23].…”

“…Preventing them from failure and steering them in the optimum route can help organizations to decrease their costs and increase their net profit. Reliable, cost-efficient, and economical operations of these vehicles have increased a necessary demand for the real-time telematics monitoring system based on the IoT, and the main duty is to interpret data somehow can get meaningful information [27].…”

What about the circular economy of vehicles in the U.S.? An extension of the analysis done in the EU by Saidani et al. (2017)

“…European automotive manufacturers and importers are responsible for recycling costs under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principle. As a result, the EoL processing of the automotive sector is increasingly well-organised in the EU (Saidani et al 2017). This European Directive concerns the automotive sector only, and thus the EoL management of HDOR vehicles is less developed.…”

“…In Europe a similar story can be told but in the light-duty sector. The French automaker Renault has developed collaborations with third parties to design an efficient circular supply chain supporting 2 closed-loop reused, remanufacturing and recycling of end-of-life vehicles, both to comply with the ELV Directive and to achieve sustainable profits (Saidani et al 2017). In the U.S., the State of California is trying to develop and implement sound practices in terms of ELV management, operating state-of-the-art and licensed recycling facilities (SCADA, 2017).…”