Analyzing the energy metabolism of the automotive industry to study the differences found in this sector across EU countries
The automotive industry plays a key economic and political role in developed countries due to its contribution to employment and revenues. In the EU, automotive industries play different roles in different countries due to the fragmentation of production and offshoring. An energy metabolic perspecti...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:290985 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/290985 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.energy.2024.130855 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Motor vehicles industry MuSIASEM Metabolism GHG emissions Efficiency Decoupling |
| Sumario: | The automotive industry plays a key economic and political role in developed countries due to its contribution to employment and revenues. In the EU, automotive industries play different roles in different countries due to the fragmentation of production and offshoring. An energy metabolic perspective allows us to explain differences in performance determined by the expression of different functions. This paper analyses the Motor vehicles industry and its sub-sectors in 8 EU countries from 2010 to 2019 visualizing data in end-use matrixes, a Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) tool. We study the relation over the following variables - energy carriers (electricity, and thermal energy), GHG emissions, working time, and value added - and three different scales - whole economy, the MVI sector, the subsectors within MVI. According to this multi-scale and multi-dimensional characterisation, we cluster the countries according to their functional specialization in (i) manufacturing intermediate parts and modules, (ii) final assembly of vehicles, and (iii) management and engineering design. This representation provides an integrated overview of the characteristics of the industry in relation to its core-periphery dynamics in the spatial division of labour, and gives new insights to the analysis of labor productivity, efficiency, decoupling and structural changes for sustainability. |
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