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Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries

GreenBiz

Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries. This week, I've been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse. Lithium-ion batteries are clearly a candidate for such innovative circular thinking. .

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Projected EV battery recycling capacity outstrips expected supply

Charged

Afraid there won’t be enough recycling plants to recycle EV batteries when they start reaching end of life in large numbers? Encouraged by generous government incentives, companies have been investing heavily in battery plants. Current plans for recycling plants see capacity greatly outstripping the supplies of waste batteries.

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Recycling e-waste should be a legal requirement in the EU, says report

Envirotec Magazine

Recovering the critical raw materials residing within electronic waste will require investment, and a legal framework to incentivise this will be essential, say the authors (image credit: Steve Janosik , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Batteries from WEEE and end of life vehicles.

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Cornish Lithium snaps up £18m of investment in bid to boost UK lithium supplies

Business Green

Miner says funds will go towards feasibility studies for its flagship Trealour hard rock lithium mining project and further prospecting in Cornwall. Specialist technology metals investor TechNet has agreed to invest an initial £9m at 13.5p

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Ford and Redwood Materials to collaborate on battery recycling

Charged

The two companies will work together to “create a closed loop for battery recycling and a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials.”. Ford also made a strategic investment of $50 million in Redwood. Ford also recently announced a joint venture with SK Innovation, BlueOvalSK, which will supply batteries for Ford vehicles.

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

The Verge: Energy

Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Smarter tech and new recycling techniques might just mean our EVs get even greener. Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. The solution, or part of it, might come from recycling. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on.

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$7m seed funding funneled into lithium-ion battery recycling

Smart Energy International

PNE), an emerging growth company engaged in the regeneration of lithium-ion battery (LIB) material, announced its closure of a seed funding round at $7 million for LIB recycling. The seed funding is the latest announcement from PNE regarding their research and initiatives into LIB recycling. PNE’s LIB recycling.

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