Battery Recycling Second Life Storage

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Nissan and Sumitomo will Give a Second Life to Electric Car Batteries : TreeHugger

A "4R" Business
Nissan and Sumitomo (a huge business group from Japan) announced today plans to "Reuse, Resell, Refabricate and Recycle" lithium-ion batteries previously used in electric cars, "giving them a 'second-life' as energy-storage solutions in markets worldwide." These used batteries can spend their second life storing energy for the grid (for example, from solar panels), a market that is expected to grow to the equivalent of 50,000 car batteries per year by 2020 in Japan alone.

 

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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...ling-program-throughout-europe-114705859.html

Tesla in the UK

At the end of their long life, Tesla will recycle its battery packs at Umicore's UHT facility in Belgium. The Brussels-based materials technology company will use the expended pack material to produce an alloy that will be further refined into cobalt, nickel and other metals.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-recycling-program