Technical Paper
Application of Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Comparative LADA Automobiles
2000-04-26
2000-01-1492
Car features several peculiarities distinguishing it from other commodities on consumer's market. At first, a car is anintegral component of local environment of human being and has a great ecological influence on him and the environment during its production, service life and recycling. Besides, it historically turned out that car manufacturing has an important political status, being the face of the country, reflecting its scientific, technical and technological achievements [1]. AVTOVAZ Inc. is the biggest in Russia passenger car manufacturer. It produces about 75 % of all national passenger cars. For 3 decades of its history the factory has made more than 19 million passenger cars, 1/3 of them has been exported, mainly to European countries. Nowadays LADA cars fleet have more than 11 million items. There are 8 million of them only in Russia.