Thursday, October 06, 2022

Inside a battery recycling facility

How environmentally friendly and sustainable are electric vehicles? We will find out!

"A massive new battery recycling facility from Redwood Materials is being built in the mountains  just outside Reno, Nevada. My colleague Casey Crownhart, our climate reporter, took a look around to see how the construction’s going, including on the hydrometallurgical building, where valuable metals—lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper—will be isolated from crushed battery materials."

Inside a battery recycling facility | MIT Technology Review (behind paywall) Battery materials will soon be short supply. Recycling facilities like one from Redwood Materials could help fill in the gaps.



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