The present is all about working towards a sustainable world and Singapore is not backing down on its efforts.
With the rollout of multiple initiatives under the Singapore Green Plan 2030, the journey to sustainability could slowly become our reality. Singapore’s electric vehicle (EV) push is one of the key efforts, with a goal to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040.
With the global EV market on a consistent growth trajectory, 2019 saw an estimated 500,000 tonnes of battery waste. Potentially by 2040, two-thirds of all car sales are expected to be electric, in turn generating 1,300 gigawatt-hours of waste batteries according to the International Energy Agency.
The rise in electric cars has driven up the worry of rising piles of discarded batteries in our landfills. Out of the excessive amount of EV batteries utilised, only five per cent of said lithium-ion rechargeable…
NEU Battery Materials on recycling EV batteries
