Florian Broch developed a concept that integrates life cycle-oriented ecological product assessment into the vehicle development process. This allows for an efficient and reliable evaluation and tracking of a vehicle's ecological balance throughout all phases of development. Furthermore, the author prepares the results of the ecological balance in a target group-oriented manner to support decision-making in vehicle development. To address data gaps in the early phases of development, he also conducts a forecast of parameter values of the material balance using data mining methods.