New Collaboration Balances Sustainability and Profitability of Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling In our pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, the environmental and supply chain impacts of the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles should not be overlooked. While researchers around the world are determined to increase the lifetime value of batteries with … [continued]
Researchers at Chalmers are now presenting a new and efficient way to recycle metals from electric car batteries. The method makes it possible to recover 100% aluminum and 98% lithium from spent electric car batteries. At the same time, the loss of valuable raw materials such as nickel, cobalt and … [continued]
Northvolt has chosen Quebec for its first battery factory in North America, thanks to significant government incentives.
Tesla co-founder and board member JB Straubel started the electric vehicle battery recycling company Redwood Materials in 2017. Now, as the EV industry continues to expand, the recycling company has raised over $1 billion in a new funding round, officially pushing Redwood past a $5 billion valuation. Straubel’s Redwood Materials … [continued]
A not-so-farmiliar household name has assembled $4 billion in private and public funding for EV battery recycling.
RecycLiCo has a unique patented process to recycle and upcycle 99% of the cathode material in an EV’s li-ion battery, turning “black mass” into a new “black gold.”
After being stabilized in an ambulance as he struggled to breathe, Jonathan Harter hit a low point. It was 2020, he was very sick with COVID-19, and his job as a lab technician at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was ending along with his research funding. “It was a weird situation … [continued]
A new law has set high environmental standards for batteries from electric cars. But its effectiveness will be determined by rules that are still up for discussion.
Battery recycling company and Tesla partner Redwood Materials is currently in discussion to raise as much as $700 million in funding. If all goes according to plan, the funding would put the company’s valuation at nearly $5 billion ahead of the company’s plans to construct a new factory in Nevada — though … [continued]
A little known provision in the Inflation Reduction Act is creating new business opportunities in battery recycling in America.
