circular economy

Battery Lifecycle Company is building Europe’s first fully automated plant at its site in Magdeburg, with Bosch Rexroth supplying the technology. The site will test used batteries from different manufacturers, deep-discharge them, and prepare them for subsequent shredding.

An advanced recycling process makes it possible to recycle 95 percent of an electric vehicle battery. Agreements are already in place with industry partners within both battery and vehicle production, securing a high recycling volume from the start.

British new truck manufacturer Tevva established a valuable partnership with global experts Ecobat for first-life battery management. The partnership starts with 12-month pilot for battery handling and repair with opportunity to expand into repurposing and recycling.

Actually, the company expects that electric trucks will have a share of 60% in distribution applications and 40% in long-haul transport in 2030. So, it's quite important to treat batteries in the most efficient way from square one.

The initiative was backed by a preliminary feasibility study conducted in 2020 by Renault Trucks in tandem with the specialist Indra Automobile Recycling and ADEME, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency.

The two Scandinavian companies have the target to create sustainable batteries using lignin-based hard carbon produced with renewable wood from Nordic forests. Stora Enso is capable to produce lignin, a plant-derived polymer found in the cell walls of dry-land plants. Trees are composed of 20–30% of...