Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 18, 2024
By investing in battery recycling, EV efficiency, charging, battery innovation, and more choices of transportation modes. Essentially, the amount of minerals needed to create our vehicles is reduced through: Increased EV efficiency: Making EVs energy efficient reduces battery size requirements by using less energy per mile.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Increasing the reuse and recycling of batteries at their end of life is essential to increasing the sustainability of batteries and creating a circular economy. Recycling must ramp up. There are huge opportunities for recycling to decrease the need for newly mined materials in batteries. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 27, 2022
Luckily, lithium-ion battery recycling research and development has been going on for years and there is an existing and growing repurposing and recycling system in North America for these components. Current lithium-ion battery collection, repurposing, and recycling network in North America. Slattery et al.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 21, 2025
Another in-person event took place in Western Pennsylvania, where supporters rallied in support of community-centered clean energy at the Homestead Steel Mill Stacks. As one of the priorities in Gov. The legislation is to be introduced in the coming days by Rep. Peter Schweyer.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Bidirectional EVs Could Be the New Standard Electric vehicles (EVs) should be a clean transportation and a clean energy solution. For two years, we worked on SB 615 with Senator Ben Allen to require all EV batteries to be repurposed or recycled. that need to be mined for new batteries.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 19, 2022
It is more like a straight line from silica mine, to refining factory, to shimmering batch of shining polysilicon ingots, to panel assembly , to a couple decades generating clean electricity—and then, far too often, to a landfill. Among those that are recycled, very few have 100% of their material recovered.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Essentially, the materials recovered through battery recycling can replace future material supply that would otherwise need to be extracted from the earth to meet demand. Estimates show that in 2050, the United States can meet about half of EV demand for cobalt and nickel and a quarter of lithium with minerals recovered through recycling.
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