With increasing concerns linked to climate change, Li-ion batteries are being considered as part of the solution to the ‘carbon conundrum’ due to their ability to capture energy generated by renewables. With the UK government’s environmental strategy aiming for the electrification of the majority of vehicles on Britain’s roads by 2030, a recycling strategy must be developed to deal with end-of-life batteries in order to recover the critical materials for future re-use. This is essential to maintain supplies of key elements, such as Co and Li, as current models have predicted large scale depletion by 2050[1]. The aim of the Faraday institution ‘Recycling of Li-ion Batteries’ (Re-LIB) project lead by the University of Birmingham, is to recycle the current generation of batteries used in electric vehicles to be utilized in closed-loop recycling. The developed methodologies must be able to contend with the wide variety of chemistries currently implemented within the electric vehicle market. This work will discuss the initial characterisation and early purification/reclamation methods used to recover electrode materials from batteries sourced from a ‘used’ electric car.

Characterisation and initial purification studies of recovered electrode material from an electric vehicle

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