Altilium – Recovery and Reuse of Battery Materials for Low Carbon Battery Pack Demonstrator
Altilum Technology’s pioneering project is aimed at demonstrating that battery cells produced with recovered cathode active materials (CAM) perform as well as batteries produced from virgin raw materials. The project is a collaboration with a leading automotive OEM to validate battery performance.
Altilium, a UK-based clean technology group focused on supporting the transition to net zero, is working in collaboration with JLR to produce and validate EV battery cells using materials recovered from end-of-life EV batteries.
Altilium’s advanced EcoCathode™ process can recover 95% of the cathode metals, including lithium, cobalt, and nickel, from end-of-life batteries for direct reuse in the production of new batteries. The ability to recycle these metals and “close the loop” on their life cycle reduces the need for virgin mined materials, leading to significant reductions in the carbon footprint of new EV batteries.
Project Highlights:
- Production and validation of lithium-ion battery cells using cathode active materials (CAM) recovered from battery waste.
- Production of battery cells by UKBIC, the UK’s national battery manufacturing scale-up facility, using recovered battery materials produced by Altilium at its new mini-commercial ACT2 facility, as well as its ACT1 pilot, both in Devon.
- Comprehensive validation studies to be conducted by JLR on the pouch cells at its cutting-edge battery testing facilities.