

grew from just a few thousand in 2011 to hundreds of thousands in 2020. This helped us to optimize the system for maximum economic benefits to the recycling industry.” - Zheng Li, CEO of Li Industries Rigorous analysis to guide a nascent industryĪccording to Argonne, annual electric vehicle ( EV) sales in the U.S. “We used EverBatt to analyze automated sorting systems with different features and processing capacities.

The competition aimed to incentivize American businesses to demonstrate processes to capture and recover battery materials. It was administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize was a $5.5 million prize competition launched in 2019 by DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. These successful applications of the model, called EverBatt, demonstrate its potential to help shape a robust battery recycling industry. Department of Energy’s ( DOE) Argonne National Laboratory informed the technology of two teams that won a prestigious battery recycling prize.
