from chemistry to pack
Most EV battery packs are disassembled by hand today: a technician discharges the pack, then works through fasteners, wiring harnesses, adhesive joints and potting compound one pack at a time. It’s slow, and it puts a person directly next to a charged pack that may be several hundred volts. Recycling Processes and Recycling Process Engineering … Read more
Somewhere in your house is a drawer full of dead phones, old laptop chargers, and a cable for a device you no longer own. Multiply that drawer by every household on the planet and you get one of the strangest resource deposits in existence. Richer, per tonne, than most gold mines on Earth. Welcome to … Read more
It’s easy to assume every retired lithium-ion pack is a small pot of gold waiting to be shredded. In practice the recycling value of an end-of-life pack depends almost entirely on cathode chemistry, and in 2026 that value ranges from genuinely profitable to actively negative. Here’s what the current numbers look like, chemistry by chemistry, … Read more
Yanti Innovative Electromotive Solutions Pvt Ltd Abstract A module at 78% state-of-health (SoH) is scrapped as end-of-life; after reconditioning, it powers a stationary storage for three more years. Another at 82% SoH fails weeks into revival. Conventional metrics cannot explain the difference. Field analysis of >1,000 EV modules across platforms reveals that recoverability the probability … Read more
Why Reuse Is Lagging Behind Author: Bluewater Battery Logistics The global push for renewable energy and electrification is driving an unprecedented production of lithium-ion batteries. Approximately ten to fifteen percent of new batteries remain unused in their intended first-life applications due to various factors – including overproduction and cancelled projects. While recycling is critical for end-of-life batteries, the concept of second-life reuse, where unused and … Read more
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are seen as the cornerstone of a more sustainable future of transport. Batteries are the key technology for powering these vehicles. However, the production of battery cells involves energy-intensive processes that result in significant CO2e emissions. As a result, BEVs have higher carbon footprint in production than internal combustion engine (ICE) … Read more