EV Battery Recycling — Jumping In

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 03:30:58 +0000

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. The grid energy storage industry represents a much smaller fraction of the lithium-ion battery market than electric vehicles, but it too has a responsibility to ensure batteries are responsibly and sustainably produced and then […]

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Record Year for Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chains

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:38:46 +0000

Ford BlueOval SK Battery ParkThis Blog is part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2022 Climate & Clean Energy Developments

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GM Banks On Honking Big Electric Vehicles In First-Ever Propulsion Do-Over

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 21:30:41 +0000

electric vehicles GM lithium battery recyclingThe US car buying public loves big vehicles, and now they are going to love big electric vehicles.

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Battery Recycling — Home Grown

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:50:21 +0000

A big issue amongst those of us with environmental concerns is: What happens to the batteries? It is a fair question and one that deserves to be taken seriously and answered properly. Even RedEarth, which supplies stationary home batteries, finds this the most common customer concern. We can point to large firms like Redwood Materials […]

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Graphmatech, Graphenea, & Northvolt: “Breakthrough in Battery Recycling”

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:25:41 +0000

Northvolt factoryAs the electric vehicle market matures, battery recycling and reuse rapidly becomes a bigger deal. Battery recycling is a long established practice, but never before at the scale we will see for lithium-ion batteries from electric cars and trucks. One might think there’s nothing new under the sun in this world, but some young and […]

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Greener Electric Car Batteries? (Ask A Scientist)

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 03:10:29 +0000

CATL battery packLithium-ion batteries are the most popular battery in use today. First commercialized in 1991, their cost has declined by a remarkable 97 percent over the last three decades, enabling the rapid growth of mobile phones, laptops, and, more recently, electric cars. Global demand for the batteries is projected to increase dramatically by the end of this decade, […]

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NREL Analysis Highlights Strategies Beyond Recycling To Bolster Circular Economy For Solar & Battery Technologies

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:31:58 +0000

In a new comprehensive literature review, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered that alternatives to recycling may have untapped potential to build an effective circular economy for solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery technologies. These alternative strategies, such as reducing the use of virgin materials in manufacturing, reusing for […]

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Li-Cycle & Glencore Announce Partnership, Glencore Invests $200M In Li-Cycle

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2022 14:00:57 +0000

Li-Cycle and Glencore have announced a strategic partnership that will provide customers with an integrated approach for both primary and recycled metal needs. As part of this partnership. This is in addition to another partnership announced earlier in May. The two companies executed a global feedstock supply agreement in which Glencore will supply all types […]

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MSW Management Awards Li-Cycle Co-Founders For Innovation & Leadership In Battery Recycling

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 11:00:45 +0000

Li-CycleMSW Management, which is focused on working in partnership with the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), has awarded Li-Cycle co-founders Ajay Kochhar and Tim Johnston for their innovation and leadership in the lithium-ion battery recycling industry. The two co-founders were among twenty other innovators of 2022 awarded for transforming the waste industry. Every […]

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Li-Cycle’s Battery Recycling Plant In Arizona Now Open

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 14:10:10 +0000

Li-Cycle’s lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Arizona is now open. This is the company’s third operational Spoke facility in North America and it has a capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries annually. The battery recycling plant can process the equivalent of batteries required for around 20,000 EVs per […]

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