THE BATTERY VALUE EQUATION
Building more value into the life of batteries
Battery circularity depends on preserving value. That means designing, using, maintaining, repairing and financing batteries in ways that keep options open – for continued use, reuse, repurposing and ultimately recycling.
The Battery Value Equation is a workshop series that brings the value chain together to understand what creates that value, what destroys it and what we can do to improve the trajectory.
Circularity starts with value
A battery that retains value has more options.
Value supports maintenance and repair. It makes reuse and repurposing commercially possible. It improves end-of-life economics. And residual value matters much earlier than end of life: assets that retain value are easier to finance, which in turn supports the sale and deployment of new products.
But potential value is not enough. A reuse market only exists if someone builds it. Batteries are only prepared for reuse if upstream actors know that demand exists. Recycling economics only improve when volumes, technology, logistics and downstream markets come together.
Value has to be actively created and preserved across the battery lifetime.
Design & production
Use
Maintain & repair
Reuse & repurpose
Recycle
The slow cascading of value enables new high-value products.
Without value preservation, assets are harder finance, markets are weaker and circularity is harder achieve.
What the Battery Value Equation does
Research
We bring CES data and research into the room and test what it means in practice.
Discussion
Market participants challenge assumptions, add experience and identify what needs to change.
Connections
We create a focused environment for companies across the value chain to find partners, customers and solutions.
Knowledge that compounds
Each workshop is documented and feeds into subsequent research, reports and future discussions.