Recycling: A boom in end-of-life electric car batteries?

The recovery of graphite from electric car batteries is a major challenge for the industry. Anna Vanderbruggen, a French researcher, has developed a method to recover this component in a cost-effective way. The growing demand for electric car batteries, which contain rare and expensive materials, makes recycling a must in the coming years. However, efforts to recycle these end-of-life batteries are still in the pilot phase, although there is increasing pressure from theEuropean Union to do so.