A feasibility study on the economic viability of UK Automotive Battery Recycling

根据欧盟电池指令的规定，电池生产商有义务回收电池。然而，英国目前还没有一个汽车电池回收行业。该项目的目的是调查英国报废汽车电池回收行业的经济潜力和商业模式，以及当前和未来的障碍。商业模式将寻求确定利益相关者、物料流、回收过程、回收材料价值、利益相关者之间的业务关系以及需要克服的障碍。该项目还试图了解所需的信息，以便评估汽车电池组是否可以重复使用或已经达到寿命终点，无论是整个电池组，模块还是电池级别。作为其中的一部分，我们将检查可能需要的测试方法，以确定重用的可行性。据我们所知，这些电池还没有被系统地开发出来，因此，开发一种严格的测试方法，可以确定电池何时达到使用寿命，这将对英国新兴的电动汽车行业有用。

Battery producers are obliged to recycle their batteries as defined by the EU Battery Directive. However, the UK at present does not have an automotive battery recycling industry. The purpose of the project is to investigate the economic potential and define the business model for a UK end-of-life automotive battery recycling industry and the current and future barriers to such a venture. The business model will seek to determine the stakeholders, material flows, recycling processes, recovered material value, business relationships between the stakeholders, and the barriers to be overcome.The project also seeks to understand the information required in order to evaluate whether automotive battery packs can be re-used or have reached end-of-life, either at whole pack, module or cell level. As part of this we will examine the possible testing approaches that may be required in order to determine re-use feasibility. These have not, to our knowledge, been systematically developed for this use, and therefore developing a rigorous testing methodology that can determine when batteries have reached end-of-life will be of use to the emerging EV industry in the UK.