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tot 100% recycling van batterijmateriaal en grondstoffen en ook dat gaat met zoveel mogelijk hernieuwbare energie gebeuren, zelfs 100% (Noorwegen-Zweden kan dat vandaag al, link 3)

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https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/...eries-by-2025/

PRESS RELEASE April 13, 2023

Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

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https://www.expertmarketresearch.com...ling-companies

Top 10 Companies Dominating the Global Battery Recycling Market

Posted on 04 Jan 2023

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https://businessnorway.com/articles/...attery-economy

Closing the recycling gap in Norway’s circular battery economy

A large EV battery supply, favourable government policies, and clean, renewable energy are shaping a strong battery recycling segment in Norway’s burgeoning green battery industry. Add to this a rich natural resource base and a highly skilled Norwegian process industry, and it is obvious why Norway is becoming a world leader in battery recycling.

Published 8 January 2023

The global trend towards electrification is gaining momentum. To meet the demand for clean electricity, the world needs millions more environment-friendly batteries for everything from powering electric vehicles (EVs) to storing electricity produced from renewable sources, such as solar and wind. A sustainable battery industry, however, entails much more than production. Recycling is the key to creating a circular value chain, and Norway has emerged as a pioneer in this challenging field. So how did Norway get here?

The world champion in EV adoption

This new recycling industry requires batteries. Lots of them. At the start of 2021, Norway became the first country in the world in which half of all new cars sold are electric. This record-breaking number of EVs helped to jump-start Norway’s battery recycling industry.

One company benefiting from the EV wave is HydroVolt, a joint venture between the Norwegian industrial group Hydro and Swedish battery producer Northvolt. HydroVolt is establishing the first battery recycling plant in Norway, set to open in late 2021 and designed to run on 100 per cent renewable energy. The aluminium from the used batteries will be recycled and reused by Hydro, while the “black mass” containing lithium, manganese and cobalt will either be reused in Northvolt’s battery production or sold to other parties.

Volgende maand is Hydrovolt 1 jaar operationeel:

https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.co...-europe/24608/
Inside the largest electric vehicle battery recycling facility in Europe

18th October 2022
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The Hydrovolt electric vehicle battery recycling plant

Hydrovolt is a joint venture between Northvolt – a European sustainable battery cell supplier, and Hydro, a pioneering aluminium and energy company. Hydrovolt is situated in Fredrikstad, southern Norway, and is the largest electric vehicle battery recycling plant in Europe.

Hydrovolt elevates electric vehicle battery recycling to new frontiers, with the facility able to process around 12,000 tons of battery packs each year – around 25,000 electric vehicle batteries. With the unparalleled adoption of electric vehicles in Norway, Hydrovolt is positioned to provide a sustainable solution for its entire volume of electric vehicle batteries, stopping them from retiring from the market or reaching end-of-life.

The EV battery recycling plant comprises cutting-edge technology proficient in recovering and isolating 95% of a battery’s materials, such as copper, plastics, aluminium, and black mass – which is a compound containing manganese, cobalt, nickel, and lithium.

The plant boasts an array of innovative concepts that have been specially designed to maximise the use of all materials found within the facility, including a dust collection system that recovers valuable material that is typically lost during mechanical recycling steps.

The Hydrovolt team is now investigating if they can increase their electric vehicle battery recycling capacity throughout Europe, with future aims of recycling approximately 70,000 tons of battery packs by 2025 and 300,000 tons by 2030. Staggeringly, this is the equivalent of 150,000 electric vehicle batteries by 2025 and 500,000 in 2030.

Peter Qvarfordt, the CEO of Hydrovolt, commented: “Hydrovolt represents a milestone on Norway’s trailblazing journey towards widespread electric transportation. Norway has been leading the world in the adoption of electric vehicles for some years, but what has been missing is recycling capacity to ensure a sustainable solution for those batteries as they reach end-of-life.

“Today, Hydrovolt is scaled to handle the entire volume of end-of-life batteries in Norway, but we’re now looking towards expanding to ensure we’re prepared for the higher flows of batteries we know are coming.”

Reutilising black mass

The expert recovery of black mass at the Hydrovolt plant is a significant breakthrough, as it will alleviate the dependence on acquiring primary raw materials through mining, meaning limited resources can be spared.

Additionally, at its Revolt Ett recycling plant in Skellefteå, Sweden, Northvolt is developing a hydrometallurgical treatment that is critical for processing black mass into battery-grade material, with Hydrovolt forecasted to produce more than 2,000 tons of black mass annually by 2025.

Emma Nehrenheim, the Chief Environmental Officer of Northvolt, concluded: “Recycling end-of-life batteries is a cornerstone to ensuring the electric vehicle transition is a true success from an environmental perspective. The metals used in battery production are finite, but by substituting raw materials mined from the Earth with recycled materials, we can not only cut the carbon footprint of batteries but enable the sustainable long-term use of lithium-ion battery technology.”