Northvolt and also light weight aluminum firm plot Norwegian EV recycling plant

• The sustainable lithium-ion battery producer wishes to secure raw materials to reuse right into its items and also will certainly tap among the globe's most innovative electrical lorry markets for its end-of-life batteries.

With Swedish sustainable battery manufacturer Northvolt having actually dedicated to attract at the very least half its components from recycled products by 2030, business has developed a joint venture (JV) with its investor Hydro to protect a stream of dead electrical lorry batteries.

Norway is a worldwide pioneer for plug-in electric car (EV) take-up as well as its fast maturing EV market can provide battery products as well as aluminum till Northvolt's very own lithium-ion items start reaching the end of their shelf life as well as being gone back to the maker.

A news release provided by Northvolt and also Norwegian light weight aluminum firm Hydro today announced the Hydro Volt JV developed by the companions will certainly start reusing end-of-life EV batteries in Fredrikstad, Norway next year.

The highly-automated facility will certainly squash and also arrange greater than 8,000 tons of EV batteries originally, said the job companions, with plans to after that expand ability.

Northvolt, set up to develop a lasting lithium-ion battery manufacturing industry in Europe, already has prepare for a pilot products recycling center which is readied to go into procedure this year, as part of its Rebellion task.

The business prepares to develop a major reusing site at its lithium-ion gigafactory in Skellefteå, Sweden, in 2022.