Master thesis: Life Cycle Assessment of Connected Vehicles

2 weeks ago

Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Full time

Doing your master thesis with us at IVL gives you the opportunity to get a unique insight into our research and our work. It's a chance to learn a lot more in your field of study. We welcome master thesis students every semester.

About The Master Thesis
Background
Modern vehicles increasingly rely on continuous connectivity to cloud and internet services for software updates, remote diagnostics, navigation, infotainment, fleet management, and more. While these digital functions can improve efficiency (e.g. route optimization, predictive maintenance), they also impose environmental burdens through data transmission, edge/cloud computing, and data center operations (energy use, cooling, resource consumption).

Purpose & Scope
The thesis aims to
quantify and analyse the life-cycle environmental impact
of connected-vehicle services, taking into account both the digital infrastructure (network, edge, cloud, data centers) and the potential energy/efficiency gains enabled by the services themselves. Key tasks include:

  • Estimating the environmental impacts from data transmission, computation, and storage per vehicle
  • Assessing net impact: balancing emissions from digital operations against energy savings or emission reductions enabled by connected services (e.g. eco-driving, route optimization).
  • Conducting sensitivity/scenario analysis to explore how results vary with assumptions (e.g. data volumes, electricity mix, placement of computation).

Prerequisites
We welcome applicants from master programs such as industrial ecology or sustainable energy systems. Previous knowledge in LCA is preferred but not mandatory.

Start date:
Flexible (earliest January 2026)

Contact

For questions, please contact: Julia Lindholm

Interested?

Submit your interest by clicking on "Registration of interest".

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