We’re not there yet, but in the not so distant future the world will be faced with a flood of used batteries coming from EVs and hybrids. To get ready for that moment, forces in the industry have already begun looking into ways to either reuse of recycle them.
From plans to use the said batteries as storage devices for energy in huge battery farms to those ideas of using their component parts for some other product, there’s no shortage of possible uses for them.
The latest development on this front comes from Honda. The Japanese have plans, at least in Europe, to have a fully electrified range of cars on the roads by 2025. That means shortly after that there’re going to be lots of batteries to discard.
A group called Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux (SNAM) has been handling Honda’s present needs in this department since 2013, and after a deal struck this week, it will continue to do so in the future.
Honda will dump its used battery stock on SNAM, which in turn will then try to either prepare them for use in second-life applications such as energy storage, or harvest valuable materials from the batteries and recycle them.
As per the deal, SNAm will collect batteries from Honda dealers from 22 countries across the continent, and then decide which are worth saving and reused.
“As demand for Honda’s expanding range of hybrid and electric cars continues to grow so does the requirement to manage batteries in the most environmentally-friendly way possible,” said in a statement.
“Recent market developments may allow us to make use of these batteries in a second life application for powering businesses or by using recent improved recycling techniques to recover useful raw materials which can be used as feedstock into the production of new batteries.”
The latest development on this front comes from Honda. The Japanese have plans, at least in Europe, to have a fully electrified range of cars on the roads by 2025. That means shortly after that there’re going to be lots of batteries to discard.
A group called Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux (SNAM) has been handling Honda’s present needs in this department since 2013, and after a deal struck this week, it will continue to do so in the future.
Honda will dump its used battery stock on SNAM, which in turn will then try to either prepare them for use in second-life applications such as energy storage, or harvest valuable materials from the batteries and recycle them.
As per the deal, SNAm will collect batteries from Honda dealers from 22 countries across the continent, and then decide which are worth saving and reused.
“As demand for Honda’s expanding range of hybrid and electric cars continues to grow so does the requirement to manage batteries in the most environmentally-friendly way possible,” said in a statement.
“Recent market developments may allow us to make use of these batteries in a second life application for powering businesses or by using recent improved recycling techniques to recover useful raw materials which can be used as feedstock into the production of new batteries.”