Recycling of electric vehicle batteries

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Good for breakage, and recycling of the almost new battery.

it is either a 68 kWh or 88 kWh battery. https://www.ford.com/buy-site-wide-cont ... ach-e-faq/

Marketed for only a few weeks, this Ford Mustang Mach-E has already taken a lot of money

April 23th



You have in front of you what appears to be the first Mustang Mach-E destroyed since the model was released.

And for a first, the owner of this new electric SUV has not been deadlocked. We don't have much explanation for the facts other than that the SUV was involved in a huge high-speed crash on the highway.

All the same, nearly 50.000 € went to the scrapyard after only a few weeks spent behind the wheel.

https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/auto/actualit ... d=msedgntp

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It can even happen ... That the new car falls off the truck or the train ... I saw some of them next to my work ... piled up like pieces of têtris when you start ...

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There you go, Tesla is starting to seriously talk about recycling batteries
The manufacturer wants to open a recycling center in Shanghai.

Posted on April 26, 2021 at 20:00 p.m. By Hadrien Augusto

The issue of recycling electric car batteries has just been brought to the forefront at Tesla. In Shanghai, the manufacturer has published documents to local authorities concerning new installations in its Gigafactory.

US electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla Inc plans to add facilities at its Shanghai plant to repair and recycle key components such as electric motors and battery cells, according to a document submitted by Tesla to authorities in Shanghai, ”Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Tesla is seriously starting to talk about recycling batteries, and that's a good thing. The brand has been marketing its Model S for almost ten years and the question of returning the batteries and components of its electric cars will take on its full meaning in the near future, as more and more copies will be recycled.

From battery recycling to the Giga Shanghai
In November 2020, Germany punished Tesla with an insignificant fine (12 million euros), but not meaningless. On the subject of recycling, the State had pointed the finger at the manufacturer for not offering its customers in a transparent way a recovery plan for used batteries.

However, since April 2019, Tesla has announced the arrival of a "unique battery recycling technique", which will result in "significant savings in the long term". In its defense, the manufacturer does not dwell on the reappropriation of batteries by component of energy storage, instead of recycling them to produce new batteries.

Renault, Hyundai and even BMW were much more in favor of it, although the strategy is starting to change. In Flins, in Renault's historic plant near Paris, a new battery recycling center will be set up by 2025, and the manufacturer plans to derive a new source of income from it.

China remains the largest market for electric cars in the world, with 1,3 million 100% electric or hybrid units sold in 2020. Looking at Tesla's Shanghai plant to start a new activity in recycling will allow it to have several years before seeing the arrival of the first wave of Model S, Model 3 and Model X at the end of their life. The first Model 3 was released from Giga Shanghai on December 30, 2019.

https://www.presse-citron.net/voila-tes ... batteries/

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The company US TES announces the creation of a Lithium car battery recycling plant in Rotterdam. Fully operational by the end of 2022.

This is the same TES who had announced a recycling plant in Singapore, see a little above in my post of March 28, 2021.

TES takes its innovative car battery tech to Rotterdam

Batteries, E-scrap - Kirstin Linnenkoper - July 9, 2021

E-scrap and battery recycler TES is building a large car battery facility in the port of Rotterdam.

The US company has taken the lease of an approximately 10 m000 facility, including a 2 m2 building, with plans to extend, providing a 000 m2 site in total. The facility is scheduled to be fully operational by late 40 and will be the first lithium-ion battery recycling plant in the Netherlands.

'We have an unwavering ambition to turn the port of Rotterdam site into a state-of-the-art European battery recycling facility,' says Thomas Holberg, global vice president of Battery Operations at TES. 'Once up and running, we will have up to 10 000 tonnes annually of shredding capacity and a subsequent hydrometallurgical process which focuses on the recovery of nickel, cobalt and lithium as a precursor feedstock for the battery industry.'

Allard Castelein, ceo Port of Rotterdam comments: 'We are working not only towards a net zero CO2 emission port and industry in 2050, but also looking at ways to make the industry more circular.' Therefore besides working on projects regarding for instance hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, it's important to take significant steps to establish circular production processes. 'The TES project in Rotterdam is exactly that,' he says. 'This could very well become the largest European facility for recycling batteries from electric cars.'

TES is active in Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA. In March TES opened a state-of-the-art facility to recycle lithium batteries in Singapore, which the recycler describes as 'the first of its kind in Southeast Asia'. The facility relies on a combination of mechanic equipment and hydrometallurgical processes to recover 90% of precious metals such as nickel, lithium and cobalt with a purity level of almost 99%.

This means the metals recovered from electric vehicle batteries are commercially viable for new battery production. TES plans to use comparable technology for the new site in Rotterdam.

https://recyclinginternational.com/batt ... dam/36347/

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BASF is building a pilot battery recycling plant in Germany.

BASF expands battery recycling in Germany and the US

July 13, 2021

BASF is building a battery recycling prototype facility in Schwarzheide, Germany, at the site of its cathode active materials plant to optimize further the technology to deliver 'superior returns' of lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese from discarded lithium-ion batteries.

The extracted metals will be used to produce new cathode active materials, thereby strengthening the battery value chain. This project, which is mostly funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, will create about 35 production jobs and is due to start operations in early 2023.

BASF says battery recycling is an important long-term market requirement in the electric vehicle market to reduce its CO2 footprint as well as to meet strict policy measures under the proposed EU Battery Regulation. These include recycling efficiencies and material recovery targets for nickel, cobalt and lithium.

'With this investment in battery recycling, plus leading process technology for manufacturing of cathode active materials, we aim to close the loop while reducing the CO2 footprint of our cathode active materials by up to 60% in total compared to industry standards,' says Dr Matthias Dohrn, senior vice president, precious and base metal services at BASF. 'This will enable us to meet the needs of our automotive customers - including original equipment manufacturers - and helps ensure a more sustainable future for us all.'

Meanwhile, the BASF Catalysts division, headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, has acquired Zodiac Enterprises in Caldwell, Texas, which recycles precious metals from industrial scrap, primarily chemical catalysts. This deal will complement the company's existing precious metal recycling operations in Seneca, South Carolina. It will also provide increased smelting capacity in North America. Additional personnel will be hired to expand the production capacity of the Texas site.

https://recyclinginternational.com/batt ... -us/36362/