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Tesla Claims That Its New Recycling Process Recovers 92% of Battery Material

Battery recycling is seen as a critical part of the future e-mobility ecosystem. To ensure that batteries do not end up in depots, Tesla has been working with third-party battery recyclers from the beginning. Simultaneously the automaker has also been working on its own “unique battery recycling system” for several

Impressive 38 New EV Battery Gigafactories Planned Across Europe

With the dawn of electromobility and rapid increase in the uptake of electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are playing an ever-important role in this paradigm shift. As per a report published by Bloomberg, the global demand for lithium-ion batteries increased from 0.5GWh in 2010 to 526GWh in 2020. The market

Saudi Arabian Team Devises Cost-Effective Method to Extract High Purity Lithium from Seawater

A team of researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have developed a method of lithium extraction that utilises the most abundant yet elusive source on Earth, seawater. The continuous electrically-driven membrane process was conducted on samples from Red Sea water from 0.21 to

Germany Discovers Enough Lithium To Power 400 Million EVs

Germany, one of the world's leading car producers and well-known for its excellence in the automotive industry, has recently discovered enormous storages of lithium captured in underground springs of boiling hot water, underneath the river Rhine. Lithium often referred to as "white gold", is used as a vital ingredient in

Battery Materials In Africa

Approximately 30% of the world’s mineral reserves lie in Africa, many of which are mined as raw materials for batteries. Battery raw materials are a collection of minerals that are used to produce the basic components that make up a battery. These minerals include cathode materials such as lithium,

Rare Earth Deposits In Africa

Rare earth elements (REE) are critical and strategic metals used for several commercial purposes. Also known as the lanthanides, the rare earth elements (REE) are a set of seventeen metallic elements from scandium (Sc, atomic number 21), yttrium (Y, atomic number 39), and the 15 additional elements numbered 57 to