When #LithiumIon #batteries fall below 75% capacity, they are considered unfit to #power #EVs but #research suggests that proper #reconditioning could #extend their life by years.
The research team will specifically be looking at #developing #automated ways to #disassemble batteries for more #efficient #recycling & #safety #protocols for recycling, #transporting & #storing them.
EnvironmentJournalNottingham Trent University embark on project to give electric vehicle batteries a ‘second life’Around 9m tonnes of lithium batteries become essentially unusable every year and are incinerated or sent to landfill. Nottingham Trent University’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) have been awarded a £582,000 grant as part of a Europe-wide effort to mitigate this waste. Professor Daizhong Su, Head of ADMEC…