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US battery recycler Cirba Solutions is investing $300 mn in a new recycling factory in South Carolina. The company, which counts GM among its customers, plans to start construction near Columbia in Richland County this year and begin operations ...

Altilium Metals presents details of upcoming recycling plant

Altilium Metals has announced new key points about its planned EV battery recycling plant on Teesside in northeast England. Altilium now intends to provide around 20 per cent of the UK’s cathode active materials (CAM) demand in 2030. Altilium ...

Fortum starts up battery recycling plant in Germany

The Finnish energy company Fortum starts recycling traction batteries from electric vehicles in Germany. The recycling plant in Finland is also scheduled to start commercial operation in a few weeks. In Germany, Fortum’s Germany-based recycling subsidiary Fortum Battery Recycling ...

EU Commission presents strategy to secure critical raw materials

The EU Commission is aiming for ten per cent of the EU’s demand for critical raw materials to be met from its own mining operations in 2030, 40 per cent from local processing and 15 per cent from EU ...

Koura signs supply deal with Ascend Elements

Ascend Elements will supply Koura with up to 5,000 tonnes of recycled lithium carbonate per year. Koura will use the recycled lithium carbonate in lithium-ion battery materials for the US and European markets, including lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6), a key ...

Electra Battery Materials successfully completes battery recycling trial

Electra Battery Materials Corporation has successfully recovered lithium in its black mass recycling trial being conducted at its refinery north of Toronto. The recovery and subsequent production of a technical-grade lithium carbonate product in a plant-scale setting validates Electra’s ...

Mercedes & CATL subsidiary Brunp announce battery recycling cooperation

Mercedes-Benz has agreed to cooperate with CATL subsidiary Brunp in China to recycle electric car batteries. Brunp says it already works with Volvo, BMW, FAW-Volkswagen and GAC-Toyota, among others, in the area of battery recycling. According to the now-signed ...

ABTC to set up battery recycling facility in Nevada

The American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) has announced that it has entered into agreements to purchase a move-in-ready, commercial-scale battery recycling facility located in Nevada to expand operations of its lithium-ion battery recycling technologies. In November 2022, ABTC was ...

Mercedes lays foundation stone at battery recycling plant

Mercedes-Benz has laid the symbolic foundation stone for the announced battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim. For the first stage of the plant – mechanical dismantling – commissioning is to start at the end of this year. Talks with the ...

Redwood sources 95 per cent of metals from old batteries

Redwood Materials has released an interesting update on its electric and hybrid vehicle battery recycling programme, launched about a year ago in California with partners Ford and Volvo. Redwood has collected and recycled 1,268 end-of-life lithium-ion and nickel-metal hydride ...

Tevva cooperates with battery recycler Ecobat

British electric truck manufacturer Tevva has entered into a strategic partnership with battery recycler Ecobat. As part of the partnership, the companies started a twelve-month pilot project for the handling and repair of batteries used by Tevva. According to ...

Li-Cycle receives million-dollar loan from US government

Battery recycling company Li-Cycle has received a conditional commitment from the US Department of Energy for a 375 million dollar loan. The money will be used for the Canadian company’s first US facility in Rochester, New York, USA. Li-Cycle ...

Honda to source recycled battery materials from Ascend Elements

Honda has entered into an agreement in principle with US-based Ascend Elements to supply recycled battery materials for its electrified vehicles. Through the cooperation, Honda aims to secure a stable supply of nickel, cobalt and lithium from lithium-ion batteries ...

UK to invest £15 million in recycling

The government of the UK is launching a new funding programme to strengthen the supply of critical materials on the isles. In order to help facilitate the high need for rare earth elements, a £15 million recycling research programme ...

BASF & TAT to cooperate on battery recycling in Brandenburg

BASF has agreed on a long-term cooperation with the Israeli company Tenova Advanced Technologies (TAT) for its prototype plant for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Brandenburg. Together, the two companies want to optimise the hydrometallurgical recycling process. TAT’s novel process ...

Ecobat builds third Li-ion battery recycling plant in the USA

Battery recycler Ecobat is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and the first in North America. The new facility in Casa Grande in the US state of Arizona will initially produce an estimated 10,000 tonnes of recycled material ...

RWTH spin-off Cylib raises seed funding

The battery recycling start-up Cylib, which was spun off from RWTH Aachen University, has been able to increase its seed funding by eight million to now 11.6 million euros. With the seed capital from the seed round, Cylib plans ...

MagREEsource to recycle rare earth magnets in France

The French start-up MagREEsource has developed an environmentally friendly process for recycling rare earth magnets based on patented hydrogen technology and wants to commercialise it. MagREEsource has closed a five-million-euro financing round for its pilot plant in Grenoble with ...

Redwood starts manufacturing anode copper foil

The recycling company Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has started producing anode copper foils. In addition, Redwood has received a conditional commitment from the US Department of Energy for a $2 billion loan for battery ...

Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi strengthen worldwide cooperation on EVs

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance unveiled more details about their partnership and new direction for the next 15 years. Plans include joint activities in Latin America, India and Europe – with talk of a joint 800-volt architecture in the latter case. ...

Farasis announces new direct Li-Ion recycling process

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 ...

Mercedes wants to halve their CO2 footprint by 2030

Mercedes-Benz aims to reduce CO2 emissions per passenger car by more than half over the entire life cycle by the end of this decade compared to 2020. The main levers for this are electric cars charged with green electricity, better ...

Aurubis starts battery recycling test operation in Hamburg pilot plant

The multi-metal supplier Aurubis has started the test operation of a new pilot plant for battery recycling in Hamburg. A battery recycling plant on an industrial scale is to be built within the next five years. The pilot plant ...

Matchbox announces expanded range of carbon-neutral toy cars made from recycled materials

Barbie M25 Insulation Protest set, coming soon Toy-maker Mattel has announced an expanded line-up carbon-neutral Matchbox vehicles, alongside similar eco-friendly products in the Mega Bloks line, with the aim of achieving 100% recycled, recyclable or bio-based plastic materials in all ...

CircuBAT to analyze battery supply chains

The CircuBAT research project aims to close the loop between the production, application and recycling of lithium-ion batteries from mobility. To this end, seven Swiss research institutions and 24 companies are jointly looking for optimisation options for more sustainability ...

Eramet & Suez to build battery recycling plant in France

The mining group Eramet and the environmental services group Suez have presented plans to build a recycling factory for electric car batteries in France by 2024. Later, the material extracted there will also be processed on-site. Eramet already produces ...

Jaguar to use I-Pace abtteries in 2nd Life project

Jaguar Land Rover has developed an emission-free energy storage system in collaboration with the energy company Pramac, using second-life batteries from the Jaguar I-Pace. This is to be used when access to the public electricity grid is limited or ...

Northvolt to build battery factory in Germany

The Swedish battery cell manufacturer Northvolt has announced another battery factory, this time in Germany. ‘Northvolt Drei’ is to be built in Heide in Schleswig-Holstein and will have an annual production capacity of 60 GWh. According to the company’s ...

Mercedes announces battery recycling plans for the USA & China

Mercedes-Benz has presented its global strategy for recycling E.V. battery systems. This initially includes the construction of the company’s own pilot battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim, Germany, and plants in China and the USA. The recycling factory in Kuppenheim, ...

EU Parliament agrees on position on battery regulation

The EU Parliament has now adopted its position on new regulations for batteries’ entire product life cycle. The new regulation means that negotiations with EU governments can begin. Earlier, the EU Parliament’s Environment Committee had adopted its position on ...

Tier Mobility launches battery reuse campaign

Micromobility provider Tier and Berlin-based startup Vertical Values are collaborating on solutions to extend the life of lithium batteries. The goal is to use reuse and circular economy practices to reduce environmental impact. As the two partners indicate, lithium-ion ...

Tier Mobilty launches battery upcycling campaign

Micromobility provider Tier and Berlin-based startup Vertical Values are collaborating on solutions to extend the life of lithium batteries. The goal is to use reuse and upcycling as well as circular economy practices to reduce environmental impact. As the ...

Norway invests in sustainable battery production

The Norwegian government’s Green Platform initiative has approved around 100 million Norwegian kroner (about 9.8 million euros) to support the research project ‘Sustainable Materials for the Battery Value Chain’ to establish sustainable battery production in the country. According to ...

Redwood Materials sources batteries from Ford & Volvo

Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has launched a recycling programme for electric and hybrid vehicle batteries in California. Ford and Volvo Cars are the first car manufacturers to support the programme with their batteries. Redwood is ...

US to invest almost €3 billion in battery supply chain

The US Department of Energy has announced funding of 2.91 billion US dollars for the development of a national battery supply chain – including for electric vehicles. This makes another eMobility funding from the infrastructure bill concrete. The funding ...

Redwood Materials to build two plants in Europe

Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has announced its expansion into Europe. While Redwood remains rather vague about its plans for Europe in a corresponding official announcement, JB Straubel was more specific in a media interview. As ...

An EV Boom, A Battery Crisis, And The Deadly Cost Of ‘Progress’

No matter what we tell ourselves to obscure the obvious, fossil fuel is being depleted from the bowels of our Earth at a rapid rate. Though petrol and diesel are the most prominent items on any given list of by-products, ...

Department of Environment Makes Scrapping Abandoned Cars Easy, Clean

There's a difference between classic cars and abandoned cars – the latter, not so pleasant. No matter where you are in Malaysia, you're sure to come across the odd abandoned car. We don't mean one that's been parked for a ...

Volvo Car Dealerships And Manufacturing Plant Are Collecting Used Electronics For Recycling

Volvo Car Malaysia has started a partnership with E-waste Recycling Through Heroes (ERTH) to provide Malaysians a responsible way to dispose of and recycle their used electronics. This partnership makes available an E-waste Green Box at all Volvo Car ...

Michelin Tyres To Be 100% Sustainable By 2050

Riding on its VISION concept tyre that it introduced in 2017, the Michelin Group has made a commitment to a future where its tyres are 100% sustainable. The VISION is an integrated wheel and tyre concept that is airless, connected, ...

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