Gavin Harper

Battery recycling might not be a problem today, but the recycling business is booming and is a major trend for the battery domain. We are seeing a lot of players investing in this and in the assessment phase.

This presentation and interactive discussion take a deep dive into some of the biggest questions on the OEM’s and cell supplier’s minds right now, with the end of goal of providing real world insight on:

• Different techniques of recycling and types of recycling facilities
• Technologies available for recycling
• Expected cost of recycling
• Benefits recycling can bring in terms of what you have to pay, what you get back, and what the whole cycle of raw material is going to look like
• How can the battery be structured to think about the recyclability
• How to handle the innovations in lithium-ion cells recycling
• How to enable battery packs to be disassembled in an efficient & environmentally friendly way 
• What the industry can do together to introduce recycling of batteries

We are on the verge of scaling up electric vehicles. But, after five years, there are going to be a huge amount of EV batteries that cannot just be dumped. OEMs and Cell Suppliers are more interested now than ever before in how to use these batteries for second life … and if second life is even viable.

Join your peers as we answer some of the key questions being asked right now to make repurposing a reality.

• When you take out the battery from the car, how does the lifecycle of second life start?
• What stationary applications can batteries be used for?
• How is the selection of cells/modules happening?
• What does the exact value chain look like from fresh cells coming from a cell supplier going into a car and then coming out to be used for energy storage?
• What steps can be taken to make the battery management system accessible by the second users and recyclers?
• Under which circumstances does a second life application make sense from a technical and financial standpoint ?
• Insurance and warranting of second life packs