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Audi Partners with Umicore on Battery Recycling Research
Audi AG is working Belgium materials specialist Umicore NV to identify secondary uses for materials and components recovered from electric vehicle batteries.
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Audi AG is working Belgium materials specialist Umicore NV to identify secondary uses for materials and components recovered from electric vehicle batteries.
More than 95% of battery materials such as cobalt, copper and nickel can be reused elsewhere, according to the partners’ initial research. The companies now are evaluating the purity of the recovered materials, how they can be reused and the economic feasibility of creating a storage bank for high-end raw materials.
Audi previously analyzed the batteries in its A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid car. The partnership with Umicore will focus on Audi’s new e-tron electric crossover vehicle.
Earlier this month, Umicore announced a partnership with BMW AG and Swedish battery startup Northvolt AB to develop a closed-loop recycling scheme for EV batteries. That initiative covers use of renewable resources in the production process, repurposing spent EV batteries into stationary energy systems and recycling battery cells and materials.
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