Sustainable supply of battery minerals and metals for electric vehicles. Clean energy integration into the whole value chain of electric vehicle batteries. Environmental, social, and governance risks encumber the mining industry. The hindrances to creating closed-loop systems for batteries.
However, there are several challenges associated with the use of primary batteries. These include single use, costly materials, and environmental concerns. For instance, single use primary batteries generate large quantities of unrecyclable waste materials and toxic materials.
However, the daily operation of batteries also contributes to such emission, which is largely disregarded by both the vendor as well as the public. Besides, recycling and recovering the degraded batteries have proved to be difficult, mostly due to logistical issues, lack of supporting policies, and low ROI.
The trend of reuse considerably contributes to decreasing the environmental impacts of EOL batteries both in the short- and medium-terms. Reuse, the second-life application, is to disassemble and repurpose spent EV batteries and use them in renewable energy technologies as 80–85 % of their original energy capacity still remains .
The drawbacks of this techniques are, for example, high energy consumption (e.g., 0.053 kWh for per Kg of a certain LIB during smelting) and toxic gas emissions (e.g., halogens, dioxins, and furans), which will be even more serious in the growing number of EOL batteries (11 million metric tons by 2030) in the near future [, , ].
Section 5 discusses the major challenges facing Li-ion batteries: (1) temperature-induced aging and thermal management; (2) operational hazards (overcharging, swelling, thermal runaway, and dendrite formation); (3) handling and safety; (4) economics, and (5) recycling battery materials.
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