Italian automation specialist Comau, part of the Stellantis Group, is developing a fully automated system for sustainable battery recycling and second-life reuse as part of the EU’s Flex-BD project.
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Swiss energy storage specialist Leclanché has developed a new concept for the circular economy of battery life. The concept anticipates compliance with new EU regulations on batteries.
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In Germany, battery industry players and university researchers are partnering on a joint project to improve the ecological footprint of lithium-ion batteries. The project, called SWELL, is led by battery electrolyte company Elyte Innovations, and joined by a team at the Technical University Dresden and the automotive lubricants company, Fuchs Smierstoffe.
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With the EU Commission having drafted the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), we talked to Vulcan Energy, Skeleton Technologies and volytica diagnostics, who all have new approaches to the supply and use of battery raw materials.
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The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL has announced investments of up to 23.8 billion yuan (about 3.25 billion euros) in the construction of a large industrial park for the recycling of battery raw materials and their further processing for new batteries.
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In Germany, a project coordinated by Fraunhofer ISC called RecyLIB aims to develop a battery manufacturing process designed to allow the use of recycled material. This allows the active functional material to be recovered after the battery’s end-of-life for direct reuse in the remanufacturing of electrodes.
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In the USA, Redwood Materials was approved for more than $105.6 million in tax incentives for its battery recycling and materials facility in Northern Nevada in exchange for $1.1 billion in capital investments at its Storey County facility.
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US-based Ascend Elements has raised funding totalling $300 million. The company began building its factory to produce sustainable battery materials for electric vehicles in southwestern Kentucky a few days ago.
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In Germany, Cylib GmbH, recently spun off from RWTH Aachen University, is a start-up for holistic battery recycling. The company has received 3.6 million euro in seed funding to make the recycling of lithium-ion batteries more efficient and environmentally friendly.
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The Canadian company Li-Cycle has commissioned its fourth recycling plant for lithium-ion batteries, this time in the state of Alabama, USA. The opening in Tuscaloosa took place a little later than planned but on a larger scale.
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General Motors has acquired a stake in Canadian company Lithion Recycling. The two North American companies have also entered into a strategic partnership to jointly further develop battery recycling processes.
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The specialty chemicals group Evonik wants to make the recycling of lithium from drive batteries of electric vehicles easier, more economical and more environmentally friendly. The ceramic membrane process developed for this purpose should be ready for the market in three to five years.
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After Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, announced in February that it would build at least two large-scale factories for recycling and battery material production in Europe, the search for a location appears to have narrowed considerably.
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In the USA, the MIT spinoff SiTration has raised $2.35 million in pre-seed funding. This should enable the start-up to ramp up the development of its technology for the recovery of critical materials in the lithium-ion battery recycling process.
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Micromobility provider Tier Mobility and Remondis have agreed to cooperate on recycling lithium-ion batteries on a large scale. As a result, Remondis will be responsible for recycling the batteries from over 160,000 e-kick-scooters, e-bikes and e-mopeds from the current Tier fleet in 16 European countries.
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Slovakian battery company InoBat Auto and its recycling partners have succeeded in proving that recovered active cathode material can be used in the production of new batteries.
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In the USA, Nevada-based Aqua Metals says it is reinventing metals recycling with its AquaRefining technology. The company has plated high purity cobalt and produced manganese dioxide from lithium-ion battery black mass.
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A VW-led consortium with partners from industry and science wants to prove that the most valuable components of traction batteries can be recovered and reused several times in succession through recycling.
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India’s largest battery recycling company Attero plans to invest one billion US dollars over the next five years in the construction of recycling plants for lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles, among others, in Europe, the USA and Indonesia.
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The battery recycling company Blue Whale Materials (BWM) from Washington, D.C., says it wants to build at least five recycling plants for lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles in the US and Europe together with the investor Ara Partners.
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US company ACE Green Recycling announced plans to build and operate North America’s largest sustainable battery recycling park in Texas. This is to be one of four plants planned globally with others in India and Thailand.
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Glencore has entered into a strategic partnership with Li-Cycle. The mining group is investing $200 million in the Canadian battery recycling company, which will also become a preferred partner of Glencore in the lithium-ion battery recycling sector.
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The Chinese battery manufacturer and Daimler partner Farasis Energy says it has developed and validated a sustainable direct recycling process for lithium-ion batteries. The crystalline structure of the cathode material is to be preserved, which enables a cost- and energy-saving reuse of the material.
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CATL’s recycling subsidiary Brunp has entered into a partnership with Indonesian companies Antam and IBI. CATL wants to invest the equivalent of almost 5.5 billion euros in the Indonesia. The agreement focuses on nickel mining and processing, battery materials, battery manufacturing and battery recycling.
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After the EU Commission presented proposals for mandatory sustainability criteria for batteries at the end of 2020, the Commission’s text with amendments is expected to be adopted by the EU Parliament in March 2022.
Read moreChina is faced with an enormous wave of batteries ready for reuse and recycling stemming from the world’s largest EV uptake starting around six years ago. In the last six months, the Chinese government has issued a series of new directives to ensure the battery reuse and recycling industries can effectively expand to scale.
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Panasonic and Toyota have started joint research with the University of Tokyo on battery resources and recycling. In addition to CO2 neutrality, the aim of the project is to reduce production costs in the entire battery supply chain.
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The French waste management company Veolia has announced its first electric vehicle battery recycling plant in the UK. The factory in Minworth in the West Midlands is to have enough capacity to process 20% of the UK’s end of life electric vehicle batteries by 2024.
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Panasonic battery cells from the Gigafactory in Nevada, operated together with Tesla, are to use more recycled materials in future as part of an expanded partnership with start-up Redwood Materials.
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Northvolt has produced its first battery cell with 100 per cent recycled nickel, manganese and cobalt as part of its Revolt recycling programme. The company is now looking to scale up its recycling facilities in Sweden to establish a facility able to recycle 125,000 tons of batteries per year.
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