Developing pricing strategy to optimise total profits in an electric vehicle battery closed loop supply chain

This paper studies a three-period electric vehicle battery recycle and reuse closed-loop supply chain consisting of a battery manufacturer and a remanufacturer. Differing from other products and existing research, used electric vehicle batteries can be instantly reused for other purposes before recycling, such as energy storage. In order to optimize total profits in the whole supply chain in different batteries period of use, this paper develops the optimal pricing strategy between manufacturer and remanufacturer, discusses the relationships between return yield, sorting rate, recycling rate in order to optimize total profit in different period. The result suggests that, comparing with new battery manufacturing, battery recycling and reusing would contribute to reduce raw material consumption hence reduce environmental impact, but may not gain financial benefits. It also notes that although the close-loop supply chain is nonlinearly complicated, some relationships between parameters can be treated as linear or quadratic. The results of this research will help practitioners to better understand the entire closed-loop supply chain in order to enhance its collaboration

Stereotyped and nonstereotyped sex-role occupational models.

There is no abstract available for this dissertation.Thesis (D. Ed.

The Power of Global Connectivity and Indigenous Peoples in the Digital Age

The internet adds a new level of connectivity to the entire world. Many groups of people that could not communicate previously, easily now have the ability to jointly discuss topics, opinions, and issues immediately through forums, media, and digital communications. Through modern digital culture, Indigenous peoples throughout the world have utilized online capabilities to assist in efforts of self-determination, language revitalization, and raising cultural awareness. By researching several case studies involving indigenous media, missions, and ideologies, information comes to light concerning global connectivity and the benefit of cementing Indigenous thought and goals on the World Wide Web. This information is most beneficial through online media campaigns, setting public mission statements, and addressing legal battles to the masses. Through the internet, asserting a world presence not only works as a tool to get information to the most people as possible, but also creates global connectivity and brings Indigenous peoples around the world together like never before

PHEV/EV Li-Ion Battery Second-Use Project, NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) (Poster)

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and full electric vehicles (Evs) have great potential to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and emissions. Battery costs need to be reduced by ~50% to make PHEVs cost competitive with conventional vehicles. One option to reduce initial costs is to reuse the battery in a second application following its retirement from automotive service and offer a cost credit for its residual value

Oral History Interview with Merle Newbauer, December 6, 1976

Interview with Navy veteran Merle Newbauer. The interview includes Newbauer's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

NREL's PHEV/EV Li-Ion Battery Secondary-Use Project

Accelerated development and market penetration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) is restricted at present by the high cost of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. One way to address this problem is to recover a fraction of the Li-ion battery's cost via reuse in other applications after it is retired from service in the vehicle, when the battery may still have sufficient performance to meet the requirements of other energy storage applications