Research on the Electric Vehicle Remanufacturable Battery Supply Chain with Recycling Channels

Abstract:

This paper studies management and coordination problems of electric vehicle battery supply chain based on old for new selling strategies. Closed-loop supply chain is widely applied in electric vehicle remanufacturable battery industry. Two channels of battery recycling are considered, which are recycling station channel and retailer channel. Recycling battery in recycling station channel is discarded battery, which is low value and high cost to remanufacturing, while recycling battery in retailer channel is used battery, which is good condition and low cost to remanufacturing but high collecting cost. The mathematical models based on Stackelberg model are established and prove that the old for new selling strategies is Pareto improvement, which increase profit both of supplier and retailer and enlarge the scale of market.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 773)
• Pages: 948-953
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.773.948
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Guo Ping Nong, Su Lin Pang
• Keywords: Closed-Loop Supply Chain, Old for New Selling Strategy, Remanufacturable Battery, Stackelberg Model, Supply Chain Coordination

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