Scientists in Norway say they have a problem they want to resolve. This difficulty is the factories making electric car batteries have nothing to do with recycling them. And so as a result, their batteries are difficult to tear down safely. To date all the scientist could do was sit and watch. But now that situation has changed.
Norway Will Be Making Its Own Electric Car Batteries Soon
That’s right! Companies are currently building five giga-battery-factories in Norway, and scientists believe this is an opportunity to influence how they assemble them. We can help the industry by making batteries that are much easier to recycle, one of the scientist explains. We hope everybody saves money that way.
The team at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are focusing on retrieving certain rare metals. These are expensive, and sometimes difficult to obtain in an environmentally acceptable way. The team is concerned electric cars might even become environmentally questionable, if we don’t manage the situation responsibly.
This means designing and producing electric car batteries in ways that make this much, much easier. So says an associate professor, and battery expert in the NTNU Department of Chemical Engineering, who has worked with batteries and recycling for many years.
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The team at NTNU is also considering making electric car batteries recyclable by repairing them, as opposed to tearing them down. This in turn means building them in a way that suits this process. This would be a great way to recover the remaining 80% of charge.
Imagine replacing some of the defective cells in the batteries that have become inadequate for cars, the associate professor enthuses. However, we still have to find a way to pin the legality on someone if a recycled battery subsequently fails, according to Norwegian Sci Tech News.
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