Altilium and Linked Vitality have entered a strategic relationship that may see the businesses collaborating on the extension of the lifecycle of EV batteries.
With headquarters in Newcastle and Hethel, Linked Vitality designs and develops power storage methods utilizing second-life EV batteries, whereas Altilium processes end-of-life EV batteries and manufactures the scrap to supply low-carbon cathode lively supplies (CAM) for reuse in new batteries.
Underneath the settlement, Altilium and Linked Vitality will develop sustainable and environmentally accountable enterprise fashions for the repurposing and recycling of EV batteries.
The collaboration additionally goals to determine recycling protocols, to be adopted as industry-wide requirements, following the waste hierarchy ideas of re-use, re-purpose and recycle.
Repurposing EV batteries in stationary methods can prolong their life by as much as ten years. As soon as these batteries attain the top of their second life, they’ll then be recycled and the minerals recovered for reuse within the manufacturing of recent batteries.
els for the repurposing and recycling of EV batteries.
The collaboration additionally goals to determine recycling protocols, to be adopted as industry-wide requirements, following the waste hierarchy ideas of re-use, re-purpose and recycle.
Repurposing EV batteries in stationary methods can prolong their life by as much as ten years. As soon as these batteries attain the top of their second life, they’ll then be recycled and the minerals recovered for reuse within the manufacturing of recent batteries.
Altilium has obtained its first batch of batteries from Linked Vitality, which will likely be processed on the firm’s recycling amenities in Devon. Utilizing its EcoCathode recycling course of, Altilium can recuperate over 95 per cent of the battery metals, together with lithium, in a format that may be immediately reused.
The method additionally leads to a 60 per cent discount in carbon emissions and 20 per cent decrease prices in comparison with virgin supplies.
In a press release, Matthew Lumsden, CEO Linked Vitality, stated: “Over the subsequent 5 years, we are going to see a fast improve within the availability of used EV batteries. As an {industry}, it’s crucial that we work collectively to make sure that we transfer batteries via the worth chain in a manner that minimises their environmental affect while maximising their monetary worth. This collaboration is a vital step in making a mannequin for true battery circularity.”
Linked Vitality’s storage methods are used throughout the UK and Europe for purposes together with supporting EV charging hubs, reducing power payments, balancing the grid, and maximising the return on funding from photo voltaic arrays.
Giving their batteries a second life allows EV producers and different battery homeowners to additional monetise their batteries for a number of years earlier than they’re recycled.
By this collaboration, Linked Vitality hopes to seize extra of the residual worth of those spent batteries as soon as they attain the top of their second life, whereas Altilium will achieve extra visibility of obtainable feedstock for its recycling amenities, together with its deliberate Teesside refinery (ACT 4).
The plant can have the capability to recycle waste batteries from 150,000 EVs a 12 months, producing 30,000MT of CAM, which is claimed to be sufficient to satisfy 20 per cent of the anticipated UK demand by 2030.
