Just imagine if an old car battery could be stripped and all those materials used in new cars. It is now possible, thanks to the Swedish company Northvolt. Last month, they presented the first battery made entirely of recycled materials. It should become the future.
The metals in a car battery are mostly made up of lithium. But it contains other metals, including nickel, manganese and cobalt. Northvolt was able to isolate the latter three from old batteries and then reuse them in a brand new battery. Over the next few months, the company will be running tests on the battery to see if it meets all the requirements of a new battery. If it does, Northvolt hopes to soon be extracting metals from car batteries on a larger scale.
We also recycle batteries in the Netherlands, in the Port of Rotterdam.
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Recovering metals from batteries is a complicated process. You simply can’t take a strip of metal out of a battery, because everything is attached to and stuck on top of each other. Plus, the metal becomes contaminated after years of use. To get the metal out of a battery in a clean way, they soak it in a special solution which loosens the metals and allows them to be isolated. This allows 95% of all...
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