Recycled materials will start to become widely used in electric car batteries from the end of the next decade, an industry leader has told the latest Autocar Business webinar.
Isobel Sheldon, chief strategy officer at battery manufacturer Britishvolt, said the industry is looking to figure out a way of reusing materials, such as cobalt, to reduce the amount that is dug up from the ground, as the sector looks to be more sustainable.
She said: “We have a bit of time to figure it [recycling] out. This isn’t going to be a scale thing for some time.”
Once a battery is dismantled for recycling, it currently takes 10 years for those recycled parts to be incorporated in a new, commercially available battery, Sheldon said.
The comments came during Autocar’s latest business webinar, which discussed how Europe’s battery producers can future-proof their business.
Sue Slaughter,