For years, we have been promised that batteries from electric vehicles are recyclable. With eye-watering efficiencies of more than 90% of recovered materials such as nickel, cobalt and lithium. In a lab environment yes, but are these numbers actually achievable on a commercial scale?
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Credits:
Reporter: Kai Steinecke
Camera: Florian Kroker
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editors: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann & Michael Trobridge
Fact Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read More:
Different types of battery recycling
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744654/
Current challenges and opportunities of lithium-ion battery recycling
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X21006267#t0005
Forecast lithium-ion battery recycling market
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330758/lithium-ion-battery-recycling-market-value-worldwide/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Mechanical Battery Recycling
02:27 (Black Mass) Chemical Purification
05:58 Problems with Upscaling
10:27 Conclusion