Literature Review, Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles, Part II: Environmental and Economic Perspective

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are crucial for consumer electronics, complex energy storage systems, space applications, and the automotive industry. The increasing requirements for decarbonization and CO2 emissions reduction affect the composition of new production. Thus, the entire automotive sector...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2022-10, Vol.15 (19), p.7356
Main Authors: Pražanová, Anna, Knap, Vaclav, Stroe, Daniel-Ioan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air quality management
Aluminum
Automobile industry
Automobiles, Electric
Batteries
battery recycling
Carbon dioxide
China
Composition
economic evaluation
Economic impact
Efficiency
Electric vehicles
Electrolytes
Emissions
Emissions control
Energy storage
Environmental impact
environmental impacts
Impact analysis
Internal combustion engines
Literature reviews
Lithium
Lithium-ion batteries
lithium-ion battery
Production increases
R&D
Recycling
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
recycling processes
Research & development
Storage batteries
Storage systems
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Summary:Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are crucial for consumer electronics, complex energy storage systems, space applications, and the automotive industry. The increasing requirements for decarbonization and CO2 emissions reduction affect the composition of new production. Thus, the entire automotive sector experiences its turning point; the production capacities of new internal combustion engine vehicles are limited, and the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) has continuously increased over the past years. The growing number of new EVs leads to an increasing amount of automotive waste, namely spent LIBs. Recycling appears to be the most suitable solution for lowering EV prices and reducing environmental impacts; however, it is still not a well-established process. This work is the second part of the review collection based on the performed literature survey, where more than 250 publications about “Recycling of Lithium-ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles” were divided into five sections: Recycling Processes, Battery Composition, Environmental Impact, Economic Evaluation, and Recycling and Rest. This paper reviews and summarizes 162 publications dedicated to recycling procedures and their environmental or economic perspective. Both reviews cover the techno-environmental economic impacts of recycling spent LIBs from EVs published until 2021.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en15197356