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From Battery Use to Recycling: The Auto Industry Needs a Circular Rethink
At the recent EVS38 conference in Gothenburg, I found myself the lone dissenter on a panel when moderator Mattias Goldman posed what...
Jun 276 min read


From PowerPoints to Overcapacity: The Battery Recycling Boom That Wasn’t
If there’s one shared sentiment echoing across the global battery recycling sector right now, it’s disappointment. The volumes simply...
Jun 208 min read


Faltering EV Markets Test South Korea’s Battery Recyclers
The BYD Seal in Vienna. BYD which has become the third best selling brand in Austria and is expected to grow rapidly in other European...
Apr 165 min read


Battery recycling in Europe – a reality check
By Hans Eric Melin 2024 was not a great year for the European battery industry. Falling sales of electric vehicles on a market which by...
Jan 818 min read


The ketchup effect of the EV battery recycling market
By Hans Eric Melin First comes nothing and then comes everything. We all have been there and know how annoying it is. And we are many who...
Sep 5, 20246 min read


The 5% recycling rate and other untruths about battery recycling
A few days before Christmas Michael Liebreich , CEO of Liebreich Associates, posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) about batteries:...
Jan 17, 202417 min read


To accelerate the energy transition we need to make less batteries
A few weeks ago, Alex Grant announced a funding round of $10M for his new company Magrathea . They are developing a new generation...
Jun 16, 20235 min read


New analysis of the end-of-life market for EV batteries – 3 takeaways
BYD's new show room in Shopping City outside of Vienna, Austria. The growth of Chinese vehicles on the European market is expected to...
Mar 24, 20233 min read


A Tsunami or a Drop in the Ocean?
Recently when we updated our database for the global lithium-ion battery recycling capacity we also covered the approaching overcapacity...
Sep 6, 202215 min read


Many monks, little porridge – How battery recycling will suffer from overcapacity and material shortage
In our latest CES Online update of lithium-ion battery pre-processing capacity in Europe and North America a clear pattern emerged in...
Aug 7, 20225 min read


The Good News about Battery Production Scrap
Today we are publishing our new data set on battery production scrap on CES Online. The set is based on bottom-up estimates of the global...
Jun 1, 20225 min read


There is no such thing as Status Que in the Battery Reuse and Recycling
Chinese EV maker Nio's show room on Karl Johans Gate in Oslo, Norway. What happens when China makes not only the cheapest EVs – but also...
Feb 25, 20226 min read


Prices for Used Batteries are higher than for New Batteries
In the latest assessment of EV battery prices by Bloomberg New Energy Finance in December last year the price per kWh fell below $100 on...
Jan 1, 20217 min read
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