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Why it's so hard to recycle EV batteries

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Kai Steinecke
June 7, 2024

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? And at which price point?

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