Sustainability

Study: Traction battery recycling is becoming profitable

Study: Traction battery recycling is becoming profitable

A joint study (only available in German) by RWTH Aachen University and strategy consultants PwC has analyzed the potential of recycling traction batteries. The results give hope for a profitable future. SVOLT is also working intensively on battery recycling.

Batteries that are no longer powerful enough for use in cars are by no means worthless. As a rule, they still have 70 to 80 percent of their original capacity after several thousand charging cycles (depending on the battery type and cell chemistry). In a joint study, the Chair “Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components” (PEM) at RWTH Aachen University and strategy consultants PwC have concluded that...

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