Designing and Implementing Second Life for Electric Vehicle Batteries: An Integrated Framework to Navigate Ecosystem Actors Towards CircularityShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 728, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024, p. 290-305Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The electrification of vehicles has become a critical means to achieve climate-neutral transportation. As more electric vehicles (EV) are adopted, an increasing number of lithium-ion batteries will be utilized, inevitably experiencing capacity degradation over time. Retaining the value of these retired batteries through remanufacturing, reusing, and repurposing to create a second life holds significant environmental and economic benefits. However, many companies within the battery ecosystem struggle to capitalize on this opportunity due to a lack of business insight and suitable business models tailored to their operational contexts. The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated framework for designing and implementing second life for the EV batteries that could guide and navigate ecosystem actors towards circularity. This study employed an explorative qualitative inquiry approach, utilizing interviews and workshop methods, involving 15 companies in the EV battery ecosystem. Data collection involved 24 semi-structured interviews and 22 workshops. The framework includes four building blocks, including 1) barriers and enablers, 2) circular business models archetypes and design principles, 3) ecosystem management, and 4) battery performance monitoring. Further, the paper explains criteria influencing the selection of design and implementation of strategies for battery second life. This research contributes to the theory of circular business models and ecosystem management in general, with specific relevance to battery second life and circularity.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024. p. 290-305
Keywords [en]
Battery Circularity, Battery Second Life, Circular Business Models, Circular Ecosystems, Performance Monitoring, Second-life Batteries, Ecosystems, Information management, Business models, Circular business model, Circular ecosystem, Electric vehicle batteries, Integrated frameworks, Performance-monitoring, Second Life, Second life batteries, Circular economy
National Category
Environmental Management
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-68575DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-71622-5_20Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85204622195ISBN: 9783031716218 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-68575DiVA, id: diva2:1902856
Conference
43rd IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2024, Chemnitz, 8 September 2024 through 12 September 2024
2024-10-022024-10-022024-10-02Bibliographically approved