Ready to recycle?

The number of registrations of electric cars is rising sharply. But where to put old batteries' The association of Swiss car importers, "auto-schweiz", is striving for a recycling solution for the entire industry. Empa experts support it. Crunching, the serrated metal roller eats its way into the battery modules, crushes the plastic frames, slits the silver foils of the lithium polymer packs, and shreds everything into pieces. The result is a fine powder. If it is successively thrown into several acid baths, salts and oxides are formed, from which new batteries can be built. The YouTube video "Neue Recycling-Methode für Batterien aus Elektroautos", published in May 2019, shows something that had never been seen so far: the shredding of lithium-ion batteries.