Pilot project: The facility separates end-of-life batteries into their components. Image: Kyburz
Pilot project: The facility separates end-of-life batteries into their components. Image: Kyburz Empa and Kyburz Switzerland AG are looking for ways to recycle end-of-life lithium-ion batteries in an efficient and resource-saving way. A specially developed experimental facility breaks down the old batteries into their components so that materials can be recovered as clean as possible. Everyone is familiar with this phenomenon from their cell phone or laptop: Over time, the capacity of the battery decreases, so that you have to reach for the charger more and more often. The same is true of the much larger batteries in electric vehicles. Although manufacturers can now guarantee a service life of eight to ten years for lithium-ion batteries, sooner or later they too will have to be recycled. In a project supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFoe), the Swiss electric vehicle manufacturer Kyburz Switzerland AG and Empa have set themselves the goal of recycling discarded batteries from electric vehicles.
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