Charged

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The original agreement dates from 2021, and GM has already recycled more than a million pounds of batteries. Cirba provides GM with reverse logistics, disassembly and processing to return recycled materials to the market. The company has six facilities, including two active lithium-ion processing sites.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

Feedstock has been introduced into the automated system, enabling recovery of valuable critical minerals from spent lithium-ion batteries. Recovering battery-grade lithium hydroxide from spent batteries in commercial quantities. “We Ramping of the pilot facility to process metric tons of black mass per month. Source: Aqua Metals.

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Swedish battery maker Northvolt is launching a new program, Revolt, that is devoted to recycling lithium-ion batteries. It plans to bring a pilot recycling plant online in Västerås, Sweden, in 2020, next to its existing manufacturing plant. It will serve as a platform for developing and validating the recycling?

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Charged

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act , battery-makers are scrambling to develop North American sources of key battery materials, including nickel, cobalt and lithium. Part of the demand is expected to be met by recycling, which could reduce the need for new mines. Redwood also recycles batteries from consumer electronics.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The program’s focus is to demonstrate that battery grade metals can be manufactured from recycled materials at lower cost, lower environmental impact, and with higher domestic US sourced content than conventional virgin sourced metals.

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Charged

JUNE 29, 2023

They are designed to ensure that the soaring demand (the EU is expected to have some 30 million EVs by 2030) is met by greener batteries with lower emissions, produced using recycled materials. Battery recycling targets on the consumer side will also be raised. ” Sources: Reuters , GreenBiz

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Charged

OCTOBER 21, 2024

US-based battery recycling materials and management company Cirba Solutions has been selected to enter negotiations with the US Department of Energy for up to $200 million in funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the construction of its lithium-ion processing facility in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. To recycle these efficiently, they must be disassembled and the resulting waste streams separated.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

24M’s SemiSolid technology reduces the number of steps required to manufacture battery cells, but still uses conventional lithium-ion raw materials. The production platform enables capital and operating cost savings as well as expanded opportunities to recycle materials.

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GreenTech Gazette

DECEMBER 1, 2024

This makes them safer and more stable than traditional lithium-ion batteries, which can be prone to overheating and catching fire. Lithium-sulfur batteries Lithium-sulfur batteries are another type of battery that is being developed as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After all, material scarcity leads to value, and there’s gold in all those EV battery packs headed to landfills. Well, not literal gold, at least not much, but there is plenty of lithium, cobalt, and other materials that are good for batteries but hard to find in the earth. Manufacturers, too, are getting in on the game.

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Charged

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“This facility enhances our ability to support the recycling needs of our diverse and growing customer base in North America to ensure lithium-ion battery material is recycled in an environmentally friendly and safe manner,” said Ajay Kochhar, co-founder and CEO of Li-Cycle. “Li-Cycle

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Charged

AUGUST 4, 2021

Faraday Institution researchers working on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham have developed a new method to recover materials from end-of-life EV batteries. The new process uses ultrasonic waves to separate valuable material from the electrodes.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Volkswagen has opened its first EV battery recycling facility to recover raw materials such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt in a closed loop, together with aluminum, copper and plastics, achieving a recycling rate of more than 90% over the long term. Source: Volkswagen.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Battery recycling technology company Lithion has raised 125 million Canadian dollars ($99 million US) in a Series A funding round, and has granted construction and manufacturing firm IS Dongseo the exclusive right to use its lithium-ion battery recycling technology in the South Korean market.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Redwood says it’s processing most of the recycled lithium-ion batteries in North America today—some 6 GWh worth, or the equivalent of 60,000 EVs, per year. The company will safely package, transport, and recycle these batteries at its facility in Nevada, then return high-quality, recycled materials back into domestic cell production.

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Charged

MARCH 26, 2020

Finish utility company Fortum , German chemical company BASF , and Russian mining company Nornickel have signed a letter of intent to develop a battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland. The companies aim to promote the production and use of recycled raw materials in the EV battery market.

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Charged

JANUARY 2, 2024

Toyota Motor North America is expanding its battery recycling network with Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling materials and management company.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Swedish manufacturer Northvolt , which is partially owned by Volkswagen and BMW, announced that it has produced its first lithium-ion battery cell using 100% recycled nickel, manganese and cobalt. The recycling process can recover up to 95% of the metals in a battery to a level of purity on par with fresh virgin material.”.

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Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Aqua Metals has developed a novel battery recycling process. 6K Energy produces sustainable materials for lithium-ion batteries. The MOU includes a proposed supply agreement for recycled materials from Aqua Metals to meet the critical mineral needs of the 13,000-tonnes-per-year PlusCAM facility.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The use of recycled cathode material to make new batteries will be a key part of the circular battery supply chain, but is recycled material truly equivalent to the freshly-mined stuff? In general, people’s impression is that recycled material is not as good as virgin material.

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Charged

JULY 25, 2023

There are at least 80 companies involved in EV recycling around the world, and some 50 startups have attracted over $2.7 BMW Sustainability Chief Thomas Becker told Reuters that the minerals in a typical EV battery—primarily lithium, cobalt and nickel—are worth somewhere between $1,100 and $2,200. (So

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The eventual goal is to make close to 100% of batteries from recycled materials, but that won’t be possible until there’s a large number of end-of-life EV batteries available. Today, EVs account for less than 10% of Redwood’s recycling stock.

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Charged

APRIL 5, 2024

“Recyclers that are building up a supply chain of non-recycled materials to ensure a consistent output of processed materials, such as Redwood Materials , will also be better poised to make it through the supply shortage,” says ABI.

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Charged

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Looking further upstream reveals that securing supplies of raw materials will be a colossal challenge. Of course, that’s where Redwood Materials comes in. This is one reason that I’m so excited about going after every little bit of recycled material we possibly can, because it is the lowest-hanging fruit.

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Charged

JANUARY 10, 2022

MIT Professor of Metallurgy Antoine Allanore and graduate student Caspar Stinn relied on a modified form of sulfidation to identify and separate 15 elements, including the cobalt in recycled lithium-ion batteries.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. The report noted that lithium-ion based battery technology companies received the most VC funding in 2020, with $649 million.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

H&M seeks by 2030 to become fully circular, eliminating waste and adopting sustainable and recycled materials , and has partnered with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation since 2018. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A key point they made in the email was that lead-acid batteries are 99% recyclable, while lithium-ion batteries are recycled at a rate below 5%. To summarize my view, I agree that the recycling issue must be addressed. The cost curve could flatten at a higher price for lithium-ion batteries. They agreed.

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Charged

MAY 24, 2023

Under the program, Altilium Metals will collaborate with Imperial to compare the electrochemical performance of the recycled cathode materials with commercially manufactured cathodes made from mined raw materials. The CAMs will be analyzed in coin cells and single-layer pouch cells.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

University of Warwick researchers have calculated more than a fifth of battery metals used for cell production in the UK by 2040 could be supplied by recycling end-of-life batteries, taking a sizable chunk out of import requirements. The tsunami of the problem is here now," he said.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

Conversely, an old EV battery is essentially a small mineral reserve filled with extremely concentrated and high-quality materials like lithium and nickel that can be reused again and again.” Closing the loop: recycling, end-of-life, and recycled materials markets. Once this oil is burned, it is gone forever.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2022

The majority of raw mineral production for EVs happens in Australia, Chile, and China and as such countries are now looking to ramp up recycling facilities and explore domestic reserves to reduce their reliance on foreign imports of battery materials.

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Charged

JULY 27, 2020

The Northvolt Ett plant will be powered entirely by renewable energy, and will have in-house recycling capacities. Northvolt aims to use 50 percent recycled material in new cells by 2030. CATL and Samsung SDI have also pledged to power cell production with renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Currently, the majority of all lithium, graphite, battery-grade nickel, electrolyte salt, electrode binder and iron phosphate cathode material are produced outside the US and China controls the supply chains for many of these key inputs. in 12 states. Anticipated project locations for battery manufacturing.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It is powered with lithium-ion batteries. A 2019 paper from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute reviewed the available carbon emissions data for lithium-ion batteries. At the end of life, the battery should be recycled, which imposes another GHG burden. Emissions associated with building the batteries; 2).

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 1, 2021

Northvolt is aiming for 50% recycled material in new cells by 2030. The reason to start recycling in Norway is due to the fact that the country remains years ahead of others in terms of EV adoption, which also means that she will be the first country to experience significant volumes of EV batteries reaching end-of-life.

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