China has put export restrictions on technologies critical for producing electric vehicle batteries, in a move to consolidate its dominance in the sector that has contributed to the country’s lead in ...

Dragonfly Energy successfully used high-purity lithium hydroxide recovered by Aqua Metals Inc. from recycled lithium-ion batteries to manufacture a lithium-based battery cell using Dragonfly ...

Electra Battery Materials Corp. said Monday it has recovered lithium in a recycling trial being conducted at its refinery north of Toronto, supporting its plans to commercialize its process for ...

Finland-based Metso Corp., which launched a precursor cathode active materials (pCAM) production plant this May, says it has received positive feedback from potential customers for the lithium-ion ...

The ICCT estimates that lithium-ion battery recycling facilities in the US can currently process about 100,000 t of material per year, and companies have announced plans for facilities capable of ...

30–40%: The percentage of a Li-ion battery’s weight that comes from valuable cathode material <5%: The percentage of Li-ion batteries that are recycled currently ...

Phase one will involve annually processing 3,000 tons of lithium “black mass,” which is material obtained from spent batteries, to collect metals such as lithium, cobalt, copper and manganese.

Lithium-ion battery recycler Blue Whale Materials (BWM), headquartered in Washington, has received a contracted grant award of more than $55 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office ...