Altilium & Connected Energy Collaborate to Extend the Lifecycle of EV Batteries

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Altilium, a UK-based clear expertise group centered on supporting the transition to internet zero, and Related Power, a number one developer of second-life battery power storage methods, have as we speak introduced a brand new strategic relationship that may see the 2 firms working collectively to increase the lifecycle of EV batteries.

The collaboration brings collectively two of the UK’s main innovators within the fast-growing EV battery eco-system and underlines each firms’ dedication to sustainability and lowering the environmental affect of EV batteries.

Related Power designs and develops power storage methods utilizing second life EV batteries, whereas Altilium is a pioneer in EV battery recycling, processing end-of-life EV batteries and manufacturing scrap to provide low-carbon cathode lively supplies (CAM) for direct reuse in new batteries.

Below the settlement, Altilium and Related Power will collaborate to develop sustainable and environmentally accountable enterprise fashions for the repurposing and recycling of EV batteries, bringing worth to each firms in addition to battery producers and automotive OEMS.

The collaboration additionally goals to determine accountable repurposing and recycling protocols, to be adopted as business huge requirements, following the waste hierarchy ideas of re-use, re-purpose and recycle.

Repurposing EV batteries in stationary methods can lengthen their life by as much as ten years, delivering vital environmental and round economic system advantages. As soon as these batteries attain the top of their second life, they will then be recycled and the essential minerals recovered for reuse within the manufacturing of recent batteries, guaranteeing that helpful sources stay within the UK provide chain.

Altilium has already obtained its first batch of batteries from Related Power, which might be processed on the firm’s state-of-the-art recycling amenities in Devon. Utilizing its EcoCathode™ recycling course of, Altilium can get well over 95% of the battery metals, together with lithium, in a format that may be straight reused within the manufacturing of recent batteries.

The method additionally ends in a 60% discount in carbon emissions and 20% decrease prices in comparison with virgin supplies, paving the way in which for the manufacturing of extra reasonably priced and even cleaner EVs.

Rod Savage, Program Director, Finish-of-Life Batteries at Altilium, commented: “We’re excited to be working with Related Power to advance our shared imaginative and prescient of a round economic system for EV batteries. This collaboration is additional demonstration of Altilium’s dedication to making sure the accountable administration of end-of-life EV batteries, working with best-in-class companions throughout the worth chain to assist the expansion of your entire battery eco-system.”

Matthew Lumsden, CEO Related Power, added: “Over the following 5 years, we’ll see a fast improve within the availability of used EV batteries. As an business, it’s essential that we work collectively to make sure that we transfer batteries via the worth chain in a means that minimises their environmental affect while maximising their monetary worth. This collaboration is a vital step in making a mannequin for true battery circularity.”

Related Power’s storage methods are more and more used throughout the UK and Europe for functions corresponding to supporting EV charging hubs, slicing power payments, balancing the grid, and maximising the return on funding from photo voltaic arrays. Giving their batteries a second life allows EV producers and different battery house owners to additional monetise their batteries for a number of years earlier than they’re recycled.

By this collaboration, Related Power hopes to seize extra of the residual worth of those spent batteries as soon as they attain the top of their second life, whereas Altilium will achieve extra visibility of obtainable feedstock for its recycling amenities, together with its deliberate Teesside refinery (ACT 4). The plant could have the capability to recycle waste batteries from 150,000 EVs a yr, producing 30,000 MT of CAM, sufficient to satisfy 20% of the anticipated UK demand by 2030.

Each firms are already a part of a £30.1 million Nissan-led undertaking, backed by the Superior Propulsion Centre, geared toward strengthening the UK’s capabilities in EV battery reuse, recycling and grid balancing.

By selling the reuse and recycling of EV batteries, Altilium and Related Power are serving to to construct a round economic system for EV batteries within the UK, lowering the UK’s reliance on imported supplies and lowering the carbon footprint related to battery manufacturing and disposal. This in flip helps the UK’s objectives to realize net-zero emissions by 2050.

About Altilium

Altilium is a UK-based clear tech group that may reshape the UK and European automotive provide chain by providing excessive quantity, low carbon home sources of cathode and anode supplies from recycling waste streams already in circulation, corresponding to end-of-life batteries and mine tailings.

The corporate’s proprietary EcoCathode™ course of converts end-of-life EV batteries and manufacturing scrap into home, sustainable, battery precursors, cathode lively supplies (CAM) and cathode precursor (pCAM) for direct reuse in new batteries.

Altilium’s first mini-commercial plant is at present underneath building in Plymouth whereas its deliberate Teesside plant might be one of many largest EV battery recycling amenities in Europe. The plant could have the capability to course of scrap from over 150,000 EVs per yr, producing 30,000 MT of CAM, sufficient to satisfy round 20% of the UK’s anticipated wants by 2030.

Up to now, Altilium has secured over £6M in backing from UK authorities innovation awards, together with grants from the Faraday Establishments Battery Problem and the Automotive Transformation Fund. The corporate not too long ago accomplished its Collection A funding spherical with a multi-million pound funding from SQM Lithium Ventures, the company enterprise arm of the lithium enterprise of Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM), one of many world’s main producers of battery-grade lithium.

For extra data go to www.altilium.tech

About Related Power

Related Power is a world main innovator of power storage methods that utilise second-life electrical automobile batteries. The corporate is one of some firms worldwide who’ve the confirmed expertise to repurpose end-of-life batteries and convey them again to life as an power retailer.

The corporate’s E-STOR methods use 24 Renault Kangoo batteries, and its expertise is modular and scalable in design, simply tailored to manage any EV battery pack.

Its methods can elongate the lifetime of an EV battery pack by as much as a further 10 years and supply grid service revenues, photo voltaic optimisation, EV charging assist, import capability avoidance, peak shaving and micro grid balancing providers. Programs can present a optimistic carbon good thing about 450tCO2e for each 1MWh put in in contrast with a primary life BESS.

The corporate welcomed plenty of strategic buyers in 2022, together with Volvo Power and Caterpillar. The corporate is now creating utility scale battery power storage websites.

For extra data go to www.connected-energy.co.uk

Supply: Altilium