Chinese companies claim 99.6% key EV battery materials recovery

EV battery materials

Materials critical to making electric vehicle (EV) batteries as well as all manner of advanced electronics, often in short supply, are often cited as reasons — or excuses — to avoid the transition to EVs. But companies in China using new recycling techniques claim that they can recover upwards of 99.6% of EV battery materials.

As reported by InsideEVs, nickel, cobalt and manganese can be reclaimed at the 99.6% rate, aluminum at 92%, lithium at 91%, iron at 90% and copper at 89%. Nickel-manganese-cobalt, or NMC, is reportedly the most common type of lithium-ion battery in long-range EVs.

China leads the world in EV battery production as well as recycling and is pushing for global adoption of its strict standards.

Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology, which reported the numbers, is the country’s leading recycler. It claims a fully automated recycling process that can handle 120,000 tons of waste batteries and intends to increase that capacity to 1 million tons.

The company currently handles just over 50% of China’s EV battery recycling at over 200 locations.

The 91% lithium recovery rate i particular, if it proves to be real and scalable, is a major breakthrough.

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