Battery materials recycler Altilium has partnered with vehicle manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover to produce and validate EV battery cells using materials recovered from end-of-life EV batteries.
It said the project will demonstrate battery cells produced with recovered cathode active materials and validated for use by JLR. It will be a first for the UK, it claimed. It plans to leverage its EcoCathode process to recover critical materials including lithium, cobalt and nickel.
The project is supported by the public Advanced Propulsion Centre UK funding body.
JLR will conduct comprehensive validation studies on the pouch cells at its battery testing facilities. Production of the battery cells is planned to take place at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), the UK’s national battery manufacturing scale-up facility.
Altilium will recover battery materials at its new mini-commercial ACT2 facility and ACT1 pilot, both in Devon. The company has previously announced the rapid prototyping of battery cells with an OEM using recycled CAM. It said the projects will be crucial in derisking its battery recycling scale-up.
It is planning a Teesside hub, which it said will be the UK’s largest integrated battery recycling facility and one of the largest in Europe. It will be capable of processing 150,000 EV batteries annually and supplying 30,000 tpa of CAM, enough to meet 20% of the UK’s expected needs by 2030.
