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| May 12, 2022 Laboratory Partnerships Bolster Battery Recycling Prize Solutions CleanTechnica Competitors leverage laboratory capabilities to improve the lithium-ion battery recycling supply chain. |
| May 3, 2022 Opportunities and Challenges to Establish a Robust Domestic Battery Industry in the U.S. AZO Materials The United States has exciting potential to become an innovative global leader in battery manufacturing. But critical challenges need to be addressed before that potential can be realized. |
| May 2, 2022 Biden Administration Begins $3 Billion Plan for Electric Car Batteries DNYUZ The Biden administration plans to begin a $3.1 billion effort on Monday to spur the domestic production of advanced batteries, which are essential to its plan to speed the adoption of electric vehicles and renewable energy. |
| March 14, 2022 Retriev Technologies Acquires Battery Solutions to Create Largest Comprehensive Battery Management Solution in North America AltEnergyMag.com Combined Offering Creates Recycling Solution for Industry and Consumers Enabling a “Circular Supply Chain” Opportunity. |
| March 11, 2022 Mercedes-Benz firms up plans for 2,500-tonne battery recycling plant Reuters Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz AG (MBGn.DE) on Friday firmed up plans to build a battery recycling pilot plant in Germany, part of a trend in which carmakers are trying to cut the use of scarce raw materials needed for electric vehicles. |
| March 11, 2022 Redwood Materials Launches First EV-battery Recycling Program in California EE Power Backed by hundreds of millions in funding and with support from the likes of Ford and Volvo, Redwood will seek to prepare the state for an impending flood of dead and dying Li-ion batteries. |
| March 6, 2022 Argonne’s Jessica Durham on ‘end of life’ planning for lithium ion batteries (Episode 138) Automotive News In this podcast, the Argonne National Lab materials scientist outlines how batteries can be recycled without sacrificing profits, how technology borrowed from mining can be used to extract value from old cells, the promise of solid-state, and why the U.S. is on track to meet its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. |
| December 6, 2021 Developing Strong EV Supply Chains Will Mean Taking Environmental Mining Seriously Forbes The Biden administration’s plan to expand electric vehicle sales to more than half of all new car purchases by 2031 currently seems to hang on supply chains far from our shores. If we want to expand our EV fleets, revamping the supply chains for these critical minerals required is top priority. |
| December 3, 2021 Sustainable electrochemical process could improve lithium-ion battery recycling Control Engineering Spent lithium-ion batteries have metals that are hard to separate for recycling, but new tech by University of Illinois researchers uses electrochemistry to separate and recover the metals. |
| October 6, 2021 Heritage Battery Recycling merges with Retriev Technologies Recycling Today The Heritage Group, an Indianapolis-based firm that manages a portfolio of companies specializing in heavy construction and materials, environmental services and specialty chemicals, has announced the merging of Heritage Battery Recycling, its battery management and recycling business, with Retriev Technologies, a lithium-ion battery processor in Anaheim, California. |
| October 6, 2021 Battery Recycler Li-Cycle Gets a $100 Million Investment Waste360 Koch Strategic Platforms will buy a convertible note to support North American lithium-ion battery recycling specialist Li-Cycle’s rapidly expanding growth opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia. Li-Cycle currently operates facilities in Kingston, Ontario and Rochester, New York. The company has plans to open additional facilities in Arizona and Alabama and New York, which will create a closed loop recycling ecosystem. |
| October 5, 2021 Johnson Matthey partners with OnTo Technology on battery production scrap recycling Charged Johnson Matthey has entered into an agreement with OnTo Technology, a developer of battery recycling methods, to scale up OnTo’s process for the direct recycling of lithium-ion battery scrap. |
| September 29, 2021 Princeton NuEnergy announces strategic partnership with Wistron GreenTech and eTak Worldwide on a sustainable direct recycling solution for Lithium-ion Battery and Kickoff Pilot Project WRDE Coast News Princeton NuEnergy, Inc., an emerging growth company primarily engaged in the regeneration of Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB) material, announced today its partnership with Wistron GreenTech and eTak Worldwide. The partnership aims to democratize direct recycling of Lithium-ion batteries with reduced energy consumption, CO2 emissions and operational costs. The joint pilot project kicked off in 2021 summer which aims to provide a standardized and reliable route for direct recycling and to repurpose lithium-ion batteries at scale. |
| September 29, 2021 Ford CEO: ‘Our partnership with Redwood Materials will be critical to our plan to build electric vehicles’ Mega Dealer News Ford Motor Company is teaming up with Redwood Materials to make electric vehicles (EVs) more sustainable with closed-loop battery recycling. |
| August 30, 2021 Lithium-ion Battery Lab and Recycling Facility Opens in Novi DBusiness Magazine Battery Resourcers, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and manufacturing company based in Worcester, Mass., announced it is opening two new pilot plants, one of which will be in Novi. |
| August 24, 2021 What Are The Keys To EV Success? Tesla Is Focused On Battery Recycling Forbes Tesla wants to sell 20 million electric vehicles per year by 2030. And it says for every car sold, CO2 levels will be dramatically reduced. So how does battery manufacturing impact that goal and what are Tesla’s plans to recycle? |
| July 21, 2021 Redivivus Announces Proof of Concept for Novel Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Process Waste360 Redivivus® announced today that it has successfully completed a proof of concept (PoC) to build Redi-Cycle™, a novel lithium-ion battery recycling process. |
| June 16, 2021 Redwood Materials Spending ‘Hundreds Of Millions’ To Speed Recycling For EV Batteries Waste Advantage Redwood Materials, a battery recycler created by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, says it’s more than tripling the size of its operations in Nevada and will spend “hundreds of millions” to scale up recovery of lithium, cobalt, nickel and other commodity metals it sells to makers of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. |
| June 15, 2021 Nouveau Monde and Lithion Sign a Collaboration Agreement to Recycle Graphite for Reuse as Anode Material in Batteries Waste Advantage Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. and Lithion Recycling announce the signing of a collaboration agreement for the recovery and value-added transformation of recycled graphite for reuse as anode material for lithium-ion batteries. |
| June 11, 2021 Charging up Recycling Today Several companies are planning to deploy lithium-ion battery recycling technologies. |
| June 9, 2021 FCAB releases US blueprint for lithium batteries Green Car Congress The Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB) (earlier post) has released the National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries 2021–2030 to guide investments in the urgent development of a domestic lithium-battery manufacturing value chain. |
| June 7, 2021 ORNL team uses green solvent to recover materials from spent Li-ion batteries Green Car Congress Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a solvent that results in a more environmentally friendly process to recover valuable materials from used lithium-ion batteries; supports a stable domestic supply chain for new batteries; and keeps old ones out of landfills. |
| June 4, 2021 EXCLUSIVE Biden’s electric vehicle plan includes battery recycling push Reuters President Joe Biden’s strategy to make the United States a powerhouse in electric vehicles will include boosting domestic recycling of batteries to reuse lithium and other metals, according to government officials. |
| May 25, 2021 Biden’s infrastructure plan would benefit from a healthy domestic battery supply chain GreenBiz President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan (The American Jobs Plan) aligns recovery stimulus and climate action. This is smart: Experts conclude that the green stimulus delivers high returns in job creation. |
| May 24, 2021 Argonne study finds rare earth supply disruptions can have long-range impacts Green Car Congress Rare earth materials are essential to a variety of economic sectors, including healthcare and clean energy. In a new study, scientists at Argonne National Laboratory highlighted which rare earth elements may be particularly vulnerable to disruptions such as mine shutdowns. |
| May 22, 2021 Cobalt Institute report: demand for cobalt for batteries grew at annual rate of 10% between 2013 and 2020 Green Car Congress The Cobalt Institute has released its State of the Cobalt Market Report 2020. The Cobalt Institute commissioned Roskill to look at the global trends in cobalt consumption, supply and production in 2020. |
| May 21, 2021 Top 5 Benefits of Switching to Green Electric Cars Conscious Life News The future of driving is electric. Thanks to new technologies that promise to shorten charging times and increase range, not to mention the automation features that further enhance safety, there has never been a better time to choose an electric vehicle. |
| May 20, 2021 Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries? Science The battery pack of a Tesla Model S is a feat of intricate engineering. |
| April 7, 2021 How to Dispose of a Laptop Battery Lifewire You shouldn’t toss an old laptop battery in the garbage. Recycling a laptop battery can seem a hassle, but it’s vital. |
| April 7, 2021 This company wants to ‘mine’ garbage to find metals for EV batteries ArcaMax The rising number of electric vehicles in both the consumer and industrial sectors means electric vehicle battery companies are going to need an increasing amount of valuable metals. |
| April 5, 2021 Recycling – A batteries passport Tech Xplore Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have devised a method to identify the unique chemical makeup of every lithium-ion battery around the world, information that could accelerate recycling, recover critical materials and resolve a growing waste stream. |
| February 23, 2021 How recyclable are electric car batteries? Medium Before EVs help save the world, they have one hulking flaw to address: their batteries. |
| February 22, 2021 Battery Recycling: How to Get There, Progress Along The Way Battery Power Battery recycling was the subject of a symposium last month at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference, Europe, and rightfully so. It’s the focus of a great deal of attention. |
| February 17, 2021 Retriev Technologies Inc. And Marubeni Corporation Announce Strategic Partnership For Developing New Circular Business For End-Of-Life Lithium-Ion Batteries Sparklight Marubeni Corporation (hereinafter, “Marubeni”) and Retriev Technologies Inc. (hereinafter, “Retriev”) have entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the aim of developing a new circular business for End-of-Life Lithium-ion batteries (hereinafter, “EOL LiB”). |
| February 17, 2021 First Cobalt begins study of ‘black mass’ material from recycled batteries Proactive The company will study the material as a supplemental source of feed for its hydrometallurgical refinery north of Toronto |
| February 17, 2021 Peridot Acquisition Corp. to take Li-Cycle public Recycling Product News Li-Cycle and Peridot Acquisition Corp. will enter into a definitive business combination agreement that will result in Li-Cycle becoming a public company. |
| February 9, 2021 Why the US must support the electric vehicle supply chain The Hill General Motors’ announcement last month that the company will phase out all gas-powered vehicles by 2035, coupled with Ford’s plan to double its electrification investments, are yet another sign that the global transition toward electric vehicles is well underway. |
| February 7, 2021 BASF says it is embracing the circular economy. Should we be skeptical? C&EN While critics see virtue signaling, the company heralds the adoption of a green economic opportunity |
| February 3, 2021 Managing Small Consumer Batteries – Part 2 WasteAdvantage Magazine Li-ion batteries are everywhere, are a growing part of the waste stream, and present unique additional hazards when improperly managed. Improving the status quo is clearly possible. |
| January 26, 2021 Fortum Oyj: expands its EV batteryrecycling operations with a new mechanical processing plant in Finland MarketScreener In conjunction with the launch of Finland’s national battery strategy, Fortum today announced the further expansion of its battery recycling operations. |
| January 23, 2021 The time to solve the electric car’s battery problem is now Quartz In September, Tesla announced that it would be phasing out the use of cobalt in its batteries, in an effort to produce a $25,000 electric vehicle within three years. If successful, this bold move will be an industry game changer, making electric vehicles competitive with conventional counterparts. |
| January 21, 2021 Old EV Batteries Look Like a Gold Mine for Dogged Entrepreneurs Bloomberg Dismantling them to recover cobalt, lithium, and nickel could limit the environmental impact of car manufacturing. But for now it’s still a money-losing endeavor. |
