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Table 1

Model symbols and meanings

Variable	Description	Variable	Description
ω	Unit wholesale price of new power batteries	c_m	Unit manufacturing cost of new power batteries
p₁	Unit retail price of new power batteries	c_r	Unit remanufacturing cost of waste power batteries
p(t)	Rebates offered by dealers to consumers for trading-in	c₁	The unit recycling cost of echelon utilization merchants
n(t)	Cascade utilization effort level	N₀	Potential market size of initial consumers
p₂	The retail price per unit of discarded power batteries sold by distributors to secondary users	N₁	Potential market size of trade in consumers
p_t	The retail price per unit of high-energy density batteries sold by tier manufacturers	δ	Consumers evaluate discounts on old products
f	The price of manufacturers recycling used batteries	θ	Consumer willingness to pay for new products
o	Difficulty coefficient of echelon utilization	x_m(t)	The level of recycling efforts at time t made by the manufacturer
A	Difficulty coefficient of recycling and re-manufacturing	x_s(t)	The level of recycling efforts at time t made by the dealer
B	Difficulty coefficient of trading-in	x_t(t)	The level of recycling efforts at time t made by the echelon recycling dealer
g	The unit reward (or punishment) amount under reward and punishment measures that is higher (or lower) than the government’s preset utilization rate of tiers	φ	The echelon utilization rate of retired power batteries $φ = D / q_{t n}, φ \leq 1$
φ′	The echelon utilization rate set by the government under reward and punishment measures	q_tn	Trade-in consumer demand
D	The echelon utilization consumer demand

Variable	Description	Variable	Description
ω	Unit wholesale price of new power batteries	c_m	Unit manufacturing cost of new power batteries
p₁	Unit retail price of new power batteries	c_r	Unit remanufacturing cost of waste power batteries
p(t)	Rebates offered by dealers to consumers for trading-in	c₁	The unit recycling cost of echelon utilization merchants
n(t)	Cascade utilization effort level	N₀	Potential market size of initial consumers
p₂	The retail price per unit of discarded power batteries sold by distributors to secondary users	N₁	Potential market size of trade in consumers
p_t	The retail price per unit of high-energy density batteries sold by tier manufacturers	δ	Consumers evaluate discounts on old products
f	The price of manufacturers recycling used batteries	θ	Consumer willingness to pay for new products
o	Difficulty coefficient of echelon utilization	x_m(t)	The level of recycling efforts at time t made by the manufacturer
A	Difficulty coefficient of recycling and re-manufacturing	x_s(t)	The level of recycling efforts at time t made by the dealer
B	Difficulty coefficient of trading-in	x_t(t)	The level of recycling efforts at time t made by the echelon recycling dealer
g	The unit reward (or punishment) amount under reward and punishment measures that is higher (or lower) than the government’s preset utilization rate of tiers	φ	The echelon utilization rate of retired power batteries $φ = D / q_{t n}, φ \leq 1$
φ′	The echelon utilization rate set by the government under reward and punishment measures	q_tn	Trade-in consumer demand
D	The echelon utilization consumer demand

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