Establishing feasibility for safe, sustainable transportation of end-of-life EV batteries for recycling to Cathode Active material and reuse in a battery supply chain.

作为欧洲电动汽车的第二大市场，随着从2030年起禁止销售新的汽油和柴油汽车，英国处于向电动交通部门过渡的前沿。然而，随着对生产电动汽车电池所需关键原材料的需求不断增长，以及对全球供应链的担忧，迫切需要一个工业规模的电池回收行业，以帮助确保这些材料的稳定和可持续的国内供应。英国对这些原材料的依赖于全球市场，这带来了许多挑战。国际供应链复杂，容易受到地缘政治事件的干扰，同时环境、社会和治理(ESG)因素也成为电动汽车行业日益关注的问题。伴随着这一挑战而来的是一个机会-通过在英国发展关键电池矿物的循环经济来建立可持续和稳定的供应链。Altilum Metals是英国唯一家从报废电动汽车电池废物中回收关键矿物的公司。这些有价值的材料以质量和格式回收，可以最环保和最具成本效益的方式直接在电池制造中重复使用。与现有的火法冶金工艺不同，它可以回收锂和锰。Altilum在英国的第一家工厂预计将于2026年在蒂赛德投产，年处理50,000吨锂离子电池黑质量(TPA)的能力，相当于每年约150,000电动汽车或10GWh/年。这些战略废物将被处理，以回收30,000 TPA的阴极活性金属(CAM)，并提供回英国电动汽车供应链。在这项可行性研究中，该公司将与英国增长最快的汽车电气化和升级循环业务Lumaz合作，开发一种创新和可持续的解决方案，用于运输和放电寿命结束的电动汽车电池，然后在Teesside工厂回收。Lumaz已经开发了一种流程和技术，将专业工业车队车辆升级和电气化，以达到工厂的新标准，并将其转换为其专有的电动总成。卢纳兹生产的每一辆向上循环电动汽车节省了车内82%的嵌入碳。根据这项研究开发的下线电池运输解决方案将增加Altilum回收业务的可持续性，确保电池以最低的环境影响和最大的社会效益运输到我们的回收设施，同时具有经济效率。

As the second largest market for EVs in Europe and with the sale of new petrol and diesel cars banned from 2030, the UK is at the forefront of the transition to an electrified transport sector.However, with growing demand for the critical raw materials required for the production of EV batteries and concerns over global supply chains, an industrial scale battery recycling industry is urgently needed to help secure a stable and sustainable domestic supply of these materials.The UK is dependent on the global market for these raw materials, which presents a number of challenges. International supply chains are complex and vulnerable to disruption from geopolitical events, while environ­mental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are also becoming a growing concern for the EV industry.With this challenge comes an opportunity -- to build a sustainable and stable supply chain by developing a circular economy for critical battery minerals here in the UK.Altilium Metals is the only company in the UK recovering critical minerals from end-of-life EV battery waste. These valuable materials are recovered in a quality and format that can be directly reused in battery manufacturing in the most environmentally friendly and cost-effective way. Unlike existing pyrometallurgical processes, it can recover the lithium and manganese.Altilium's first UK plant is expected to be operational in Teesside by 2026, with the capacity to process 50,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of lithium-ion battery black mass, equivalent to approximately 150,000 EVs per year or 10 GWh/annum. This strategic waste will be processed to make 30,000 tpa cathode active metals (CAM) to be recovered and supplied back into a UK EV automotive supply chain.This feasibility study will see the company partner with Lunaz, the UK's fastest growing vehicle electrification and upcycling business, to develop an innovative and sustainable solution for the transportation and discharging of end-of-life EV batteries, prior to recycling at the Teesside plant.Lunaz has developed a process and technology to upcycle and electrify specialist industrial fleet vehicles to factory new standard and convert them to their proprietary electric powertrain. Every up-cycled electric vehicle produced by Lunaz saves 82% of the embedded carbon within that vehicle.The EOL battery transportation solution developed under the study will increase the sustainability of Altilium's recycling business, by ensuring that batteries are transported to our recycling facility with the lowest environmental impact and maximum social benefit, in addition to being economically efficient.