Audi teams with Umicore on recycling EV batteries
SInce June the two have been analysing the batteries in the A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid car and defining ways of recycling. They then determined the possible recycling rates for battery components such as cobalt, nickel and copper, and the first phase in the lab has shown that more than 95 percent of these elements can be recovered and reused.
The focus now is on the so-called closed-loop approach. In such a closed cycle, valuable elements from batteries flow into new products at the end of their lifecycle for a coming version of the e-tron. The aim is to gain insights into the purity of the recovered materials, recycling rates and the economic feasibility of concepts such as a raw materials bank that would mean the supply of material was more secure with shorter delivery cycles.
“We want to be a pioneer and to promote recycling processes. This is also an element of our program to reduce CO2 emissions in procurement,” said Bernd Martens, Member of the Board of Management for Procurement and IT at Audi, a subsidiary of Volkswagen.
Related stories:
- VOLKSWAGEN SEES FUEL CELL BREAKTHROUGH
- LUCID TO ROLL OUT DC FAST CHARGING ACROSS THE US WITH VOLKSWAGEN
- VOLKSWAGEN TESTS QUANTUM COMPUTING IN BATTERY RESEARCH
- VOLKSWAGEN BETS $100M ON SOLID STATE BATTERIES
If you enjoyed this article, you will like the following ones: don't miss them by subscribing to :
