Battery Recycling

Munich-based company “tozero” claims it has successfully tested industrially recycled graphite in a battery cell for the first time in Europe.

Toyota Chemical Engineering is currently working on an alternative process for recycling high-voltage (HV) batteries that does not require the conventional incineration process.

British company Altilium, which previously focused on nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) batteries, has started recycling lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the United Kingdom.

Li-Cycle from Canada has announced a recycling partnership with a “premium automotive manufacturer” in the EU which will ensure the supply of materials to Li-Cycleʼs plant in Germany.

The US-based company Ace Green Recycling and local electric mobility provider Spiro have announced a collaboration to promote battery recycling in Africa.

BMW Group has entered into a European recycling partnership with “SK tes” in order to recover raw materials such as nickel, cobalt, and lithium from used batteries.

In the second half of 2025, BMW Group will start building a center for the recycling of battery cells in Germany for around ten million euros.

Li-Cycle has received a loan of up to 475 million dollars from the US Department of Energy for the development of North Americaʼs first hydrometallurgical recycling facility for lithium-ion batteries.

A research team at TU Bergakademie Freiberg is using a new shredder system to investigate how to entirely recover valuable battery raw materials such as nickel, cobalt, and lithium.