Canadian battery materials company Recyclico Battery Materials said it successfully produced battery cells from recycled lithium-ion with its recycling/upcycling process.
The new battery cells’ performance was validated by C4V, an intellectual property company with expertise in electrode design and Gigafactory deployment process development.
The company said C4V technology is foundational to North America’s largest home-grown lithium-ion battery Gigafactory, iM3NY, in Endicott, New York. Its supply chain is primarily North America-based.
C4V completed a phase-1 qualification study, in which Recyclico’s NMC811 (nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide) precursor cathode material was converted into a proprietary cathode composition by C4V’s supply chain partner. It was made from recycled and upcycled lithium-ion battery waste.
The company said C4V reported that electrochemical and technical data achieved the benchmark specifications and performance. Test results also indicated that the specific capacity and stability of the battery cell were acceptable and approved as qualified by C4V.
Recyclico has shipped the second, larger batch of precursor cathode material to begin phase-2 qualification testing as part of the Gigafactory qualification process. That includes the production of multi-layer commercial-size pouch and prismatic cells.
