Electric car: where are we with battery recycling?
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While the controversy continues, in Italy, against the European choice to block the sale of new cars with combustion engines starting from 2035, there are those who have started to calculate. With a clear intention: to understand what are the opportunities that will come from battery recyclinga strategic and exponentially growing sector.
The report The recycling of electric vehicle batteries to 2050created by the Politecnico di Milano on behalf of Motus-E, an association that brings together and represents companies in the automotive sector and research organizations interested in the development of electric mobility in Italy, provides some interesting data.
Currently there are 9 centers for the recovery of battery materials, 60% of them are saved, but none of these is in Italy. In fact, they are found in France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain and Finland.
Some companies then – from Audi to BMW, passing through Renault, GM, Nissan and Mercedes – recondition them to then use them as storage system in solar and wind power plants.
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The revenues generated by recycling will be between 4 and 6 billion euros between now and 2050 as far as Europe is concerned, with a margin between one and 3 billion given above all by the recovery of nickel, cobalt and lithium.
for theItaly instead we talk about approximately half a billion euros in revenues with margins between 120 and 300 million euros. Obviously it’s not just a matter of looking at the profit, but at the economic prospects of a sector which, contrary to what happens today, seems to have the possibility of being economically sustainable and also of producing profits.
The placed on the market of lithium ion batteries is driven by the sale of electric vehiclesexpected to grow strongly in the next few years, of 23% in Europe he was born in 32% in Italyalso encouraged by the regulatory evolution at European level and which our country intends to oppose.
In the meantime, however, we should also start equipping ourselves for the recycling of batteries as other countries are doing. Even because the production of cars with combustion engines has been declining here for at least thirty years: in 1989 we were able to put two million cars on the market a season, they have become just over 400 thousand in 2021. And electric motors have little to do with this decline. However, they could offer an opportunity to return to growth.
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