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HONDA HYBRID & EV BATTERIES GET ‘SECOND LIFE’ IN NEW RECYCLING INITIATIVE

HONDA HYBRID & EV BATTERIES GET ‘SECOND LIFE’ IN NEW RECYCLING INITIATIVE

  • Honda Motor Europe is growing its partnership with SNAM to recycle close-of-lifetime batteries from hybrids and electric powered cars in Europe
  • SNAM is investigating the probability of applying batteries in a ’second life’ for the storage of renewable vitality in industrial purposes
  • New hydrometallurgy processes help extraction and recycling of products from batteries not appropriate for a 2nd-lifetime software
  • Devoted internet system allows sellers to ask for Europe-vast selection of employed batteries

 

Honda Motor Europe is growing its battery recycling partnership with SNAM (Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux) to advance the sustainable usability of its close-of-lifetime traction batteries. The pan-European arrangement will see SNAM gather and recycle batteries from Honda’s increasing amount of hybrid and electric powered cars and either most likely put together them for ‘second-life’ renewable vitality storage takes advantage of or extract important products for recycling if they are not appropriate for that goal.

 

Honda and SNAM have labored collectively considering that 2013, to be certain the traceability of close-of-lifetime batteries and dispose of them in accordance with European Union environmental expectations. The expansion of this arrangement will see SNAM gather Lithium-ion and Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries from throughout Honda’s supplier network and Authorised Procedure Amenities (ATF) in 22 international locations, right before analysing how appropriate they are for recycling and processing them appropriately.

 

Tom Gardner, Senior Vice President at Honda Motor Europe, reported: “As demand for Honda’s growing array of hybrid and electric powered cars continues to increase so does the prerequisite to take care of batteries in the most environmentally-helpful way achievable. Current market place developments may possibly permit us to make use of these batteries in a 2nd lifetime software for powering corporations or by applying recent improved recycling methods to get better practical uncooked products which can be employed as feedstock into the creation of new batteries.”

 

Secure and low carbon transport is utilised for the selection of employed traction batteries. On arrival, SNAM assesses which battery packs are legitimate for inclusion in a new vitality storage unit. These are then repurposed and created obtainable by SNAM for domestic and industrial purposes.

 

When battery cells are broken and unsuitable for ‘second life’ purposes, products this kind of as cobalt and lithium can be extracted applying hydrometallurgy methods involving the use of aqueous chemistry. These can be reused in the creation of new batteries, colour pigments or as practical additives for mortar. Other normally employed products such as copper, metallic and plastics are recycled and available to the market place for use in the creation of a assortment of purposes.

 

Sellers can organize and ask for the selection of close-of-lifetime batteries for treatment and recycling by SNAM’s focused on the net system. Assortment can be arranged from centralised storage hubs in fifteen operating times, so that sellers do not have to retailer batteries at their premises. The arrangement applies to huge ‘traction’ batteries employed to ability motors in hybrid and electric powered cars, as opposed to smaller batteries employed for ignition in petrol or diesel cars.

 

SNAM is supportive to Honda’s pursuits on eco-acutely aware structure of long run batteries, so that the environmental audio treatment of these batteries at the close of their practical lifetime can be assured.

 

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Notes:

Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux (SNAM): SNAM was fashioned as an offshoot of the metallurgical business in 1981, and from the nineties has established itself as a significant player into the “loop economy”. SNAM’s prosperity of knowledge and renowned skills make it a single of several companies in the globe to have mastered the methods for processing batteries and accumulators. A subsidiary of the Floridienne Group (chemistry division), SNAM is a corporation having fun with ongoing expansion: European environmental 14001 Certification acquisition of specialised subsidiaries (sorting of mixed batteries, galvanisation processes, and many others). For more details, go to www.snam.com

 

 

Honda Motor Europe Ltd. Honda models, manufactures and markets cars, bikes and ability products around the world. A world chief in powertrain and electromotive technologies, Honda generates more than 25 million engines each year for its 3 products traces. Honda Motor Europe has duty for supporting and strategically coordinating all of Honda’s European organization pursuits, such as creation, revenue, promoting and purchaser assistance for vehicle motorcycle and ability tools functions.

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