The EV Battery Recycling Problem – WhichEV Podcast Special Episode 18

Last updated on December 13th, 2020 at 02:49 pm

The UK has imposed a ban on sales of new internal combustion engines from 2030 as part of the plan to achieve net zero greenhouse emissions, which means that in the future we will see a lot of more electric vehicles on the road. In this podcast special, we explore how the batteries in electric vehicles do not last forever, and do have an ‘expiration date’ when the decay process starts. We ask what happens to these batteries once they are at the end of their lives? Gian Matteo Sacchetti reports on the challenges of recycling Lithium-Ion batteries.

Interviewees include:

1) Carlos Larrea León

Lead Electrical Engineer at BeePlanet Factory

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-larrea-leon/

2) Gavin Harper

Faraday Institution Research Fellow at University of Birmingham

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavindjharper/

3) Professor Andrew P Abbott

Professor of Physical Chemistry

https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/chemistry/people/academic-staff/andrew_p_abbott

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-abbott-1123019a/?originalSubdomain=uk

4) Maria Kelleher