Sustainability – Recommendations for an electric vehicle manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Brönner; Marie Sophie Hagenauer; Markus Lienkamp

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2019.03.283

Sustainability – Recommendations for an electric vehicle manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Brönner, Marie Sophie Hagenauer, Markus Lienkamp

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Abstract

Production locations in least developed countries need their own indicators to evaluate sustainability due to prevailing conditions. For this reason, we present a selection and extension of indicators for social and economic sustainability evaluation for production locations in least developed countries. These indicators are identified and tested based on existing sustainability evaluation methods and representative case studies. Since the battery electric vehicle is seen as the future, the case studies results are used to derive recommendations for an all-wheel lightweight commercial electric vehicle production in sub-Saharan Africa. This vehicle was developed to fit the needs of people living in rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa as well as to add local value to economically support the region.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1148-1153
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	81
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2019.03.283
State	Published - 2019
Event	52nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CMS 2019 - Ljubljana, Slovenia Duration: 12 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019

Keywords

Assembly
Developing countries
Electric vehicle production
Least developed countries
Sustainability

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