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Cirba Solutions helps Toyota expand battery recycling network to nationwide program

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Toyota Motor North America is expanding its battery recycling network with Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling materials and management company. New automotive battery plant Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC) is also under construction and expected to open in 2025 with a $14-billion investment.

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Li-Cycle opens battery recycling facility in Alabama

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The Alabama Spoke is strategically located to support the recycling needs of the company’s growing battery supply customer base in the southeastern US, where several battery and automotive manufacturers are establishing operations.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

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Moreover, it won the 2024 North American Utility of the Year award this month, voted on by a panel of 50 automotive journalists from the U.S. In North America, the EX30 is small enough that four full-size American adults will find it too tight for more than short trips. and Canada chosen by their peers.

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Will recycled plastics survive tanking oil prices?

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Yet the recycled material available to make bottles, bags and boxes has become harder to find and more expensive. But have rock-bottom oil prices and the pandemic doomed the market for recycled plastics? California's plastic bag ban had required reusable bags to include 40 per cent recycled material, a plus for his business.

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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

That’s a massive figure that ignores the nearly 250 million tires that are disposed of annually in North America, roughly half of which are burned. That all may sound like marketing plays — and it partly is — but motorsports have historically proven an ideal development opportunity in the automotive industry. In time, at least.

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There’s gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs

The Verge: Energy

“There’s been significant investment flowing towards building recycling capabilities across the world in recent months,” Jessica Roberts, head of forecasting at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence , says. “In Even the plastics, Switzer says, are increasingly recycled. But can we meet the market need with recycled materials?

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The Lead-Acid Battery’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

R-Squared Energy

On the recycling side of lithium batteries, the energy needed to recycle the lithium batteries will cost more on top of the additional cost to transport, fully discharge, disassemble, separate prior to recycling, assuming enough infrastructure will be developed and is even cost-efficient to warrant the recycling of the lithium batteries.

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