The race to keep electric vehicle batteries out of landfills

WESTBORO, Mass. — Over the course of the next decade, tens of millions of American drivers are expected to get behind the wheel of an electric vehicle. But there’s a problem lingering over this expanding industry: what to do with old electric vehicle batteries? Mike O’Kronley has an answer.O’Kronley is a battery guy and also the CEO of a company called Ascend Elements. They are at the forefront of electric vehicle battery recycling, an industry that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. “We’re trying to find new ways to capture those materials and return them back into new batteries, and make that circular economy,” O’Kronley said from inside the company’s headquarters in Westboro, Massachusetts. By the end of the decade, hundreds of millions of electric vehicles are expected to be on the road, dramatically decreasing the carbon emissions the US produces. But there’s a…

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