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"With the official opening of a battery recycling plant in the southwestern
German state of Baden-Württemberg, carmaker Mercedes-Benz plans to recover raw
materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt from old electric car batteries.
“This brings us a step closer to the circular economy, increases our
independence from raw materials and demonstrates the innovative strength of our
company and our industry,” Mercedes-Benz head Ola Källenius said during the
opening ceremony.
The factory is Europe’s first plant to use a so-called integrated
mechanical-hydrometallurgical process, which allows for a recycling rate of
over 96 percent, public broadcaster ARD reported.
Conventional battery recycling processes generally recover around 70 percent of
materials. The recovered materials are set to be enough for the production of
more than 50,000 battery modules for new Mercedes-Benz models.
The factory is using technology provided by Primobius, a joint venture between
Australia’s Neometals and Germany’s SMS Group.
“This factory, unique in Europe, shows how much potential there is in our
country, how many good ideas are created and quickly turned into reality,” said
chancellor Olaf Scholz, who attended the opening ceremony.
“If we want to build the world’s best cars in Germany in the future – which we
can – then Germany must be a leading market for new technologies.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
