NTU and REBELION project to give EV batteries second life
Up to nine million tons of battery waste per year could be prevented from going to landfill thanks to a £4.5m project to establish a process to recycle or reuse EV batteries.
The project includes Nottingham Trent University (NTU), whose Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) has been granted £582,000 as part of the Europe-wide REBELION project, which looks to give used EV Lithium-ion batteries a ‘second life’ or be recycled more efficiently.
Professor Daizhong Su, head of ADMEC, said recycling batteries after their second life could be worth up to £23bn per year, as the raw materials they contain can be used for further manufacturing. Furthermore, research shows that with reconditioning, most EV batteries would be able to last another ten years after their capacity has fallen below 75 per cent, but the majority are sent to landfill or incinerated and many of the first-generation EVs will soon reach their end of life.
The project – supported by the European Horizon programme - will also establish how recycling EV batteries could create a major source of Lithium-ion in Europe.
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