Proposal to define service life for each region or country of usage based on average vehicle age at recycling point, establish methodologies for calculating deterioration factors for fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles and off-vehicle charging hybrid electric vehicles, exclude traction battery and fuel cell system replacement by default unless practitioners provide detailed justification grounded in empirical field study data or official manufacturer statements concerning durability and replacement practices, and clarify that for Japan, no statistics on service life in kilometres or years are currently available, requiring use of default regional values or peer-reviewed alternatives where Japanese data cannot be obtained.

The 27th session of GRPE A-LCA Subgroup 5 is scheduled for November 25, 2025. The agenda includes confirmation of the 26th meeting minutes and 27th agenda, SG5 Drafting update, CFF parameters and EoL emission factors availability in each region, and next actions. Main open issues include Hotspots, Functional Unit, Representative vehicle concept, Data quality, Primary data share, Electricity modelling, Multi-output allocation, and Methodology to define discrepancy and deterioration factors. SG5 will address coherency on Second life parts treatment with SG4.