Now that hybrid and fully electric cars are more and more a reality, the demand for electric vehicle batteries (EV batteries) is also rising. In order to continue to provide sufficient driving range, they are only allowed to lose capacity to a very limited extent. This ensures that batteries that no longer meet the requirements for use in electric vehicles can still be used in other applications. Europe therefore wants us not only to recycle but also to reuse as many batteries as possible. It is doing this mainly because we in the West are far too dependent on battery raw materials that we cannot extract here. Recycling and reuse reduces the demand for those precious raw materials. To give reuse a boost, the European project Circusol has published an extensive dossier on the reuse of lithium-ion batteries.
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