Simulation Models for Sustainable, Resilient, and Optimized Global Electric Vehicles Supply Chain

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Hauptverfasser: Alsaleh, Tareq, Farooq, Bilal
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author Alsaleh, Tareq
Farooq, Bilal
author_facet Alsaleh, Tareq
Farooq, Bilal
contents While the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is essential for decarbonizing the transportation system, the production and distribution of EVs entail substantial carbon costs. To ensure these emissions are accurately accounted for and effectively mitigated, this research introduces a digital twin of the EV's supply chain, addressing a critical gap in current EV life cycle analyses and providing the first comprehensive quantification of its environmental sustainability and resilience. This simulation model replicates global market dynamics and captures the complexity and uncertainty of the EV supply chain, enabling a thorough evaluation of its carbon footprint, sustainability, resilience, and what-if counterfactual scenarios for alternative market structures. The results reveal that average supply chain emissions range from 6.42 to 6.94 Kg e-CO2/KWh across different battery technologies. Additionally, the mass flow analysis shows unbalanced dependencies at all supply phases, with one geographical region significantly dominating the supply chain structure, highlighting the current supply chain architecture's low resilience and high vulnerability. In light of these findings, the study introduces an optimization model for hub and resource allocation configuration, effectively reducing vulnerability levels and supply chain emissions by up to 80%.
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spellingShingle Simulation Models for Sustainable, Resilient, and Optimized Global Electric Vehicles Supply Chain
Alsaleh, Tareq
Farooq, Bilal
Optimization and Control
While the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is essential for decarbonizing the transportation system, the production and distribution of EVs entail substantial carbon costs. To ensure these emissions are accurately accounted for and effectively mitigated, this research introduces a digital twin of the EV's supply chain, addressing a critical gap in current EV life cycle analyses and providing the first comprehensive quantification of its environmental sustainability and resilience. This simulation model replicates global market dynamics and captures the complexity and uncertainty of the EV supply chain, enabling a thorough evaluation of its carbon footprint, sustainability, resilience, and what-if counterfactual scenarios for alternative market structures. The results reveal that average supply chain emissions range from 6.42 to 6.94 Kg e-CO2/KWh across different battery technologies. Additionally, the mass flow analysis shows unbalanced dependencies at all supply phases, with one geographical region significantly dominating the supply chain structure, highlighting the current supply chain architecture's low resilience and high vulnerability. In light of these findings, the study introduces an optimization model for hub and resource allocation configuration, effectively reducing vulnerability levels and supply chain emissions by up to 80%.
title Simulation Models for Sustainable, Resilient, and Optimized Global Electric Vehicles Supply Chain
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06004