Towards Sustainable Urban Mobility: Integrating Design for Circular Economy-Principles in E-Scooter Development
Innovative urban mobility solutions, especially e-scooters, are becoming increasingly popular. However, due to their often-short lifespan their environmental footprint needs improvement. Circular economy strategies regarding modules and components seem to be a possible way to improve the environmental impact. This research aims to improve aspects of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with the help of Design for Circular Economy-principles (DfCE). For this purpose, a two-step House of Quality (HoQ) approach firstly translates requirements from a LCA into DfCE-principles. Secondly, the most influential components of a generic e-scooter are identified to derive recommendations regarding a low environmental impact circular scooter design.
Authors
- Daniel Roth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5175-1566)
- Chantal Rietdorf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6679-3117)
- Alexander Sauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3822-1514)
- Matthias Kreimeyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4530-1248)
- Merlin Gerald Stölzle
- Sophia Marie Giunta
- Valentin Honold
Institutions
- University of Stuttgart (DE)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (DE)
- Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategies (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Procedia CIRP
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2025.08.064
- Primary Topic
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00