By 2030, 145 million electric vehicles (EV) are predicted to be on roads which is very good but they also contain a potential environmental time-bomb: their batteries. By one estimate,Continue Reading
Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries themselves only have a shelf life of eight to ten years. There are more than 1.4 billion cars in the world today, and that number could double by 2036.Continue Reading
Germany has announced that it has discovered significant lithium deposits beneath the Rhine River and plans to mine the critical material. It is one of the critical raw materials forContinue Reading
Battery recycling is essential if we are to keep hazardous materials from entering the waste stream during the EV production process and at its end-of-life. Predictions are this year ChinaContinue Reading
German carmaker Audi and utility EnBW are setting up an electric car battery operation at EnBW’s Heilbronn plant to build scaleable storage facilities by the end of this year, drawingContinue Reading
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) is ready to produce a battery that lasts 16 years and 2 million kilometers (1.24 million miles). That distance is equivalent to circling theContinue Reading
Swedish lithium-ion battery manufacturer Northvolt and Norwegian aluminum producer Hydro have formed a new partnership (JV) to recycle Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries. It’s all part of a push to makeContinue Reading
Honda is expanding its partnership with European recycling specialists SNAM (Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux), which will collect used electric vehicle (EV) batteries from Honda dealers in 22 countries andContinue Reading
