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Automakers around the world are going electric in an effort to curb the climate impact of cars. Completely changing the powertrains of millions of vehicles, however, will also have its consequences.
There’s the question of how to source the critical minerals needed to make electric vehicle batteries, of course, but there’s also the issue of what to do with those batteries once they’ve stopped powering their cars. A startup nonprofit formed by teams from Germany and India hopes to explore one potential solution to the latter problem.
Nunam will deploy batteries originally used in Audi’s test fleet of e-tron vehicles in three prototype electric…