New Mercedes Recycling Plant Can Generate Materials To Produce 50,000 Battery Modules For EVs

New Mercedes-Benz recycling plant can generate materials to produce 50,000 new battery modules per year.

The new battery recycling plant in Küppenheim, southern Germany, has an annual capacity of 2,500 Tonnes. 

Facility can recover 96 percent of valuable and scarce raw materials from existing Electric Vehicle batteries.

It covers all steps from shredding modules from existing EV batteries to drying and processing active battery materials.

It can sorts and separates plastics, copper, aluminium and iron in a complex, multi-stage mechanical process.

Mercedes-Benz has opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant that is capable of recovering 96 percent of valuable and scarce raw materials from existing Electric Vehicle batteries so that they can be used in the production of brand-new cells.

The new battery recycling plant in Küppenheim, southern Germany, has an annual capacity of 2,500 Tonnes, which is enough to produce more than 50,000 new battery modules per year for new all-electric models.

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Integrated with mechanical-hydrometallurgical process, the facility can recover materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel from existing EV batteries so that they can be used to produce battery-packs for future Mercedes EVs.

The new facility covers all steps from shredding modules from existing electric car batteries to drying and processing active battery materials. It can sort and separate plastics, copper, aluminium and iron in a complex, multi-stage mechanical process.

“Mercedes-Benz has set itself the goal of building the most desirable cars in a sustainable way,” said Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG.

“As a pioneer in automotive engineering, Europe’s first integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical battery recycling factory marks a key milestone towards enhancing raw-materials sustainability.”

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