“Tesla launches battery recycling at Nevada Gigafactory”

Tesla Nevada Gigafactory. (Green Car Reports)

“In its latest environmental impact statement, Tesla announced that it will open its own battery recycling facility.

Tesla has been recycling batteries made at the factory using third-party recyclers. Now, as the earliest Model Ses reach 7 years old, and the company is starting to receive some batteries back after use in those early cars, it's setting up its own battery recycling facility.”

“The new processing center at the company's Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada is to process both old batteries used in customers' Teslas as well as those from its own research and development.

The company says lithium, cobalt, aluminum, copper, and steel will be recovered from the batteries in a closed-loop system that optimizes the materials for new battery production.

It also says it expects to save money producing new batteries from the recycled materials, rather than buying new minerals for its batteries.”

Read more at: Tesla launches battery recycling at Nevada Gigafactory. Green Car Reports, April 16, 2019.

See also:

- BMW sets up end-to-end battery recycling in Europe. Green Car Reports, October 19, 2018.

- Australia’s first lithium battery recycling plant launched together with e-waste processing plan. Using Renewables, May 3, 2018.