It is reported that the battery recyclable Redwood Materials (Redwood) and Audi announced the launch of a unique plan for consumers, allowing people to easily recover old equipment and rechargeable batteries at local Audi dealers.
Earlier, Redwood had established a cooperative relationship with Volkswagen Group of American to recover all scrap batteries of Volkswagen and Audi electric vehicles.
In the next few weeks, the selected Audi dealers across the United States will deploy a Redwood recycling box. The collected batteries and devices will be sent back to Redwood to help manufacture more and more sustainable household electric vehicle batteries. This is the first time that car manufacturers have cooperated with Redwood to support the collection of home lithium ion batteries and larger electric vehicle battery recycling. In the next ten years, the global demand for lithium ion batteries is expected to increase by more than 500%, so it is very important to increase materials that can be used for battery production.
The battery is widely used in almost all consumer devices. From mobile phones to laptops, electric bicycles, electric scooters and electric toothbrushes to vacuum cleaners and electric diamonds, charging lithium -ion batteries are everywhere in people's daily life. In addition, as more and more electric vehicles are on the road (the current market penetration rate in the United States is 5% and grows rapidly), the market's demand for battery materials is increasing. Different lithium -ion batteries consist of key minerals of different proportion, such as cobalt, copper, nickel, and lithium, and these metals can be used almost infinitely. Because metal atoms do not change or degrade, old devices can also become new electric vehicles without having to sacrifice performance or battery life.
In fact, a recent test conducted by the Agan National Laboratory found that the performance of the Redwood battery components made of recycled materials performed well. However, less than 5%of the device with lithium -ion batteries is currently recycled, mainly because the current recycling pathway is not clear enough. Redwood and Audi discovered the huge possibility of development recycling, allowing consumers to recover the battery, and then use these batteries to re -manufacture new and sustainable electric vehicle batteries.
Redwood is glad to establish this unique cooperative relationship with Audi, which is closer to the closed loop of lithium -ion batteries of electric vehicles and consumer equipment. In short, the plan can reduce dependence on mining, reduce the cost of electric vehicles and increase the sustainability of all products.
