Huge EV battery recycling facility comes online in Ohio | Cirba Solutions officially opened its expanded lithium-ion battery processing plant, using funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

silence7@slrpnk.net · edit-2 21 days ago

Huge EV battery recycling facility comes online in Ohio | Cirba Solutions officially opened its expanded lithium-ion battery processing plant, using funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Mihies@programming.dev · 21 days ago

Sadly no useful numbers in the article, like how much of a battery gets recycled and stuff.

wewbull@feddit.uk · 20 days ago

I don’t know about this plant, but I’ve seen videos of plants where very high percentages of the precious metals are recovered. It looks quite energy intensive, with lots of grinding and shredding going on, but the results were good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpe8HalVXFU

Mihies@programming.dev · 20 days ago

Yep, some even mention op to 95% if I recall correctly. Hopefully it gets only better. But I really wish batteries would come with recycling specs and clear EOL process. Like mandatory.