EV battery recycling - can it fill the gap?
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Report summary
Table of contents
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Why recycling is necessary
- We're going to need more 'stuff'
- How to secure critical metals?
- Reducing the carbon footprint of EVs
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Key barriers to lithium-ion battery recycling
- 1. Battery chemistries are changing
- 2. Cheaper batteries are less economical to recycle
- 3. Large scale facilities might not always be the best solution
- 4. Policy needs to catch up
- Recycling will have an impact, but only in the long term
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Supply gap in 2040 - battery recycling hardly makes a dent
- Lithium mine supply
- Spodumene conversion capacity
- Cobalt mine supply
- Cobalt refining capacity (2017)
- EV battery chemistry forecast H1 2018
- Value of recycled metals in 30 kWh battery
- Total recycled EV battery metals value
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What's included
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