Claudiu Vasile Kifor

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5. Conclusions The number of studies and industrial practices approaching CE for the automotive industry, and the entire life cycle, is still limited, as further research in this direction [,] is necessary. We identified several CE strategies in our review, but a major challenge remains the evaluation of these strategies as to which are the most relevant, effective, and efficient ones, bearing in mind the objective of minimizing the resource functionality loss [,].

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessReview by Claudiu Vasile Kifor *, Alexandru Olteanu and Mihai Zerbes Research Center for Sustainable Products and Processes, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550024 Sibiu, Romania * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.