VW partners with Redwood Materials to recycle EV batteries from VW and Audi vehicles in the US, after opening a pilot plant at its EV hub in Salzgitter.
, that will eventually recover materials from batteries on an industrial scale, along with other VW hubs in Europe. But Europe isn't the only region where the VW Group sells EVs at the moment., a battery recycling company based in Carson City, Nevada, to do the same for Volkswagen and Audi EVs in the states, aiming to recover over 95% of lithium, copper, nickel, and cobalt from EV batteries.
The aim is to create a closed-loop battery supply chain once older EVs reach the end of their usable life cycle, keeping the raw materials here in the US and thus skipping the costly mining stage. This approach to manufacturing is expected to drive down the material costs and the prices of EVs themselves, given the fact that the battery is the single most expensive component in an EV, often accounting for 20% to 30% of the vehicle sticker price.
"Additionally, given the distance the materials inside batteries must travel today from mine to battery cell—more than 50,000 miles—and these metals' infinite recyclability, we can ensure the initial carbon cost of mining these materials can be reduced every time, making batteries more and more sustainable," the company points out.VW itself has recently set out to create a closed loop by recycling EV batteries multiple times.
Still, it will be a while before the recycling process gains scale in Europe and the US, as the number of EVs retiring from the roads isn't as high as it will be in the coming years. But it's not hard to see this becoming a major industry within a decade, and recycling specialists dealing with a massive bottleneck of EV batteries waiting to be recycled.
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