Li-Cycle opens battery recycling plant in Alabama • TechCrunch

Li-Cycle, a Canadian lithium-ion battery recycler, has opened a battery recycling facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

The Toronto-based firm, which additionally operates crops in Gilbert, Arizona and Rochester, New York, can now course of as much as 10,000 tons of producing scrap and end-of-life batteries per 12 months, the equal of roughly 20,000 EVs yearly.

The newest facility is positioned within the southeastern U.S. to help the rising battery and EV provide chain there. In August, Mercedes-Benz began constructing the 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, its first battery-electric utility car for the U.S. market, at its Tuscaloosa plant.

The current flurry of exercise centered on making a sustainable battery lifecycle displays an industrywide scramble to exert extra management over provide chains and battery expertise, whereas benefitting from tens of billions of {dollars} in onshore tax incentives supplied below the Inflation Discount Act.

Stellantis stated on Tuesday {that a} new enterprise unit devoted to sustainability and battery recycling is anticipated to boost about $2 billion by the tip of the last decade. The automaker’s new round economic system hub, which runs the four-stage battery lifecycle – remanufacture, restore, reuse and recycle – is scheduled to open subsequent 12 months at its Mirafiori Advanced in Italy.

Shifting battery manufacturing to the U.S. can mitigate the provision chain issues and rising prices for uncooked supplies wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict in Ukraine, whereas guaranteeing that automakers have sufficient battery packs to fill their EV order books.

Final week, Normal Motors introduced a partnership with Quebec-based Lithion Recycling to provide new batteries from recovered battery supplies beginning 2023. Collectively, the 2 corporations will work towards establishing a round ecosystem for recycling EV batteries, a vital bottleneck because the business races to section out gasoline engines on the finish of the last decade.

Redwood Supplies has partnerships with Ford, Volkswagen and Volvo, in addition to a take care of Toyota, to gather, refurbish and recycle batteries and battery supplies to ship to the automaker’s upcoming North Carolina battery plant. The Nevada-based metals recycler expects the marketplace for battery recycling to high $18.7 billion by the tip of the last decade.

Till not too long ago, the EV rollout worldwide has centered on constructing ample charging stations to help the spate of battery-electric automobiles anticipated on the highway by 2030. However the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict in Ukraine halted world provide chains, making the uncooked supplies used for batteries scarcer and costlier.