Circular Economy Business Models for innovative hybrid and electric mobility through advanced reuse and remanufacturing technologies and services

Abstract

CarE-Service project is a H2020 large scale demonstration project funded under the agreement No 776851. The goal of the project is to prove at large scale the feasibility of innovative circular business models applied to E&HEVs, that enable the offering of new highly customized and performance-based mobility services for European citizens. Such services and business models will affect customers’ behavior and will drastically change the current End-of-Life vehicles value-chain towards sustainability. The main objectives of the Project are: 1) Establish three new circular European value chains for the re-use, remanufacturing and selective recycling of high added-value parts of E&HEVs (batteries, metals and technopolymeric components). 2) Generate new service markets for the sustainable mobility of European citizens. New services will rely on the exploitation of the opportunities of circular economy on the one hand, and will be a necessary market for the long-term sustainability of circular business models on the other. 3) Demonstrate at European scale the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of new circular business models and services, taking into account potential drawbacks and side effects. 4) Create the conditions for a European wide exploitation of results.