Monday, September 14, 2009

Recycling lithium ion batteries of electric cars: challenge ahead


US plans to put 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on road by 2015. The challenge now is how to recycle all those batteries.The Department of Energy recently awarded $9.5 million to a California-based recycling company to boost capacity for lithium-ion batteries, the kind used to power most of the new hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles entering the world market.



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