BMW is partnering with a leading EV battery recycling company in an attempt to complete a full circular supply chain of electric car batteries.

Beyond Poland, AE Elemental, which is equally owned by Ascend Elements and Elemental Strategic Metals, plans to build Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Germany. That facility will have the capacity to recycle up to 25,000 metric tons of batteries per year, or approximately 58,000 EVs annually.

Battery recycling specialist Redwood Materials has just gained another major automaker as a client, signing a partnership with BMW

An innovative RTO system has been designed for efficient EV battery recycling, offering optimized emission control and long-lasting performance.

Although 70% of the world’s reserves of lithium carbonate (from which it is mined) are in Argentina, Australia and Chile, processing it into a form suitable for use in batteries is a business currently dominated by China.

BMW of North America struck a deal to recycle lithium-ion batteries from all of its electrified vehicles with Redwood Materials, the companies announced today. The German automaker said it would instruct its dealers to send old batteries from all of its electrified models,

The car manufacturer will work with leading battery recycler Redwood Materials to recycle the lithium-ion batteries used in its electric, plug-in hybrid, and mild hybrids models,

Redwood Materials, which is building a $3.5 billion battery recycling plant in Berkeley County, will get end-of-life batteries from automaker BMW's US network.

With BMW and Redwood Materials joining forces, is the long-term sustainability of electric vehicles now within reach?

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