End of Life Vehicles and Its Development

Focus on the environmental destruction and disposal problem has become an awareness nowadays. Automotive manufacturing industry throughout the world are confronted with the law of end-of-life vehicle Directive which states that automotive products are should be taken back and recycled after end of its life. European Union End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) directive states that vehicle manufacturers and material and equipment manufacturers must Design and produce vehicles which facilitate the dismantling, re-use, recovery and recycling of end-of-life vehicles.Japan’s End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling Law introduced on 1st January 2005 proposed to promote environmental conservation and the effective use of resources to ensure the proper and smooth recycling of end-of-life vehicles. The USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to promote the recycling concept among the vehicle manufacturers. Ford, Daimler Chrysler and General Motors have provided a special program to study how to improve recyclability rate and methods to decrease the current ASR burden.Therefore, many research and development of end-of-life vehicle part and component is carried out by experts from the automotive industry to comply with the laws enforced by End-of-Live (ELV) Directive.