Consumer Acceptance and Preferences Based on Environment Knowledge to Inform Remanufacturing End-of-Life Approach for Electric Vehicle Battery: A Scoping Review Study

Product remanufacturing and other End-of-Life (EOL) approaches still remain topical issues in research and policymaking. As observed in the literature, global challenges such as climate change and the subsequent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to driving this interest. While electric and hybrid vehicles are expected to rise in the vehicle market, electric vehicle batteries remain of interest as they typically account for 30-40% of the value of an electric vehicle. While this is a growing the concern, the end-of-life use of these products remains a concern. Remanufacturing, which prepares end-of-use products and their components for use through a controlled industrial process, bringing it to "as good as new". Thus, remanufacturing can be a suggested end-of-life approach for the electric vehicle battery as well as the remanufacturable components in the electric vehicle. While existing studies show consumer knowledge of environmental issues, there are no studies that assess the environmental knowledge of consumers. This scoping review asks the question: from existing research, what are the environmental considerations and end-of-life approaches considered in consumer uptake of electric vehicles? While the broad focus is on electric vehicles, we narrow this interest to electric vehicle batteries for the reasons of component value. A PRISMA scoping review is conducted, and from this, various relevant themes necessary to investigate consumer acceptance and preferences for electric vehicle battery remanufacturing are identified.