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Recycling instead of scrapping

China’s EV market is growing rapidly. The People’s Republic is facing the question of how to deal with the increasing amount of used batteries earlier than other countries. This is because old batteries are extremely harmful to the environment. The powerful Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has now held the manufacturers responsible once again and calls for more attention to recycling.

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Frank Sieren
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China’s market for EVs is booming. And the Chinese leadership is happy about that. But one problem remains unsolved: What to do with the worn-out batteries? And since today, many EVs on Chinese roads were manufactured as early as 2015, a massive wave of disposal will likely roll in over the next five years. The environmental organization Greenpeace predicts that around seven million tons of lithium-ion batteries will go offline by 2030. They weigh as much as about 1,000 Eiffel Towers.

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