is his 1st public appearance since the assassination attempt on him. he was at the republican national convention to named ohio, send it to j defense as his funding make the move in his presidential election of next funded. i looked at why it's so difficult to recycle electric car battery. i've been puzzled and i'll be back next. now, and with more, well, you said the, i tried several times. i went on 6 times to greece, is what i have to spend life from 500 to 600. currently, more people than ever on the move worldwide in such of address in life. you know, is a very difficult journey and one is very hard. they beat

you everything on your stuff. find out about some on stores in. so migrant reliable news for migrating the this little part of good was one of us and electric comets where you can afford, when, all that the know you have all the good stuff, cobalt nickel, mangan, these and lift him in here. and the idea is to turn these raw materials into a new venture where you get companies promise they can make this work recovering more than 90 percent of materials from all to lithium ion batteries and recycling them into new ones. and that's great news because we have more and more electric cost hitting the streets. so we need more and more batteries. and so those we,

it's more and more resources. and recycling is better than mining new materials and throwing them away. but how does it work exactly, and does it work at scale? to find out we initially hope to fill them with the best, where you were, so i can company in europe, but apart from releasing promo for this like this, the industry seems pretty secretive. thankfully the recipes are much more open, which is why we came to too close to here. the focus is on metal recovery, just the perfect fit for us. but before we go in, i'll give you a quick rundown of how a carpet 3 turns into a small piece of this. there are several ways, but this is one of them. first, the battery arrives at a recycling facility and gets discharged after it's taken apart. this is done by hand, which means it's expensive, but we'll get to that later. the battery then gets shredded. the liquid pods get expected and different methods of grinding and sifting leaves you with these base

materials, metals from the battery, housing, plastic and the bits of aluminum and copper. but the stuff that everybody is after is this black mice. this contains all the valuable materials, like lithium coal, both nickel and manganese, but also graphite. and that's why it's black. and today we're going to get all of them out of that, but that's what my job. but there's, this is new, come to a doctor for research i add to close. todd and his chemical lab technician might, could come in at the university as part of a larger research group that is trying to figure out how to do this on a larger scale or. and by the way, this is what the end goal of this process is. supposed to look like in metal foil, ready to go into a battery again. so while we're doing now with of light loss. so now we're going into deleting operation with the blackness. so we're bringing all the valuable metals we have on the blackness into solution. the metal way off today is cold to

bring that out. mike is using so far it as a, as a solvent. pretty nasty stuff. if it would touch i was going, it would instantly costs a via buttons. we're using a process called hydro metallurgical recycling. it's a low temperature process, but only use a small amounts of energy compared to other. that's where your 2nd method. so for it as it's fields are toxic ends, the density lights up. but this entire process is perfect. so getting rid of impurities that are still in the black monster. after all, the shredding and sifting mainly aluminum and cover. as a 2nd step, the black box also gets filtered. lucas, best throughout the entire recycling process, they are able to remove 95 percent of impurities on a scale, a little bit bigger. the whole process looks like this. massive pulse of solving in which black mosque is processed. so from what we're seeing here, the exhaust gas

a seem to be a bit of an issue was always in with there, we're having kind of kind of in a small issue of this. so depending on the, so we'll see our leasing move, for example, in our case. so for rick, us with you might have some evolution of h to this. so, and maybe also some if age of formation. so there's this kind of problematic and definitely something you need to look into when you're going into i'm good. and we also have the assets solven's and the leeches and stuff like that. and there's also not that great for the environment. is there a way to approach it differently actually there at the moment upcoming researches for organic us with some of the green assets which are also very by your company, the table of the environment. so normally without quite homeless. but the research is, in a way, way not that are on the side of the stadium method. and if you don't work cautious lead, you get headlines like this. some gill, high tech spec 3 and hungry because of high levels of cancer, causing heavy metals in the yeah. and had difficulties filtering it's exhaust gases

by and by mental benefits of recycling. so many things to consider, and we're not even halfway done. our black mazda is no edits to a nother sullivan that will help bring out the cold in this chemical cocktail. and it's pretty colorful from greenish to doc blue. it's like so blue, it almost looks like ink it could like right, but that. busy and it's this dark blue pod actually that the cold sticks to to get a higher concentration of coal both. we need to do another round of this. this time we're going from blue to red. now that's the color change. so now the color is in the dock, a red is passed spot to be able to use the metal in new batteries. you of course need to get it out of the sullivan. you can do that by using it up as you would at industry scale, or a little quick kind of small up like this with yet another solvent. really can save

the crystals a lots here they even accumulate. so that's a bottom like how much coal is that now from the black mass isn't here. well, actually of, of this technically able to recover more than 99 percent of the cold. what are the biggest challenges in ops getting these process is what makes it so hot? you know, of course you it. we also run the run through the problem that and let scale we are only doing doesn't patrick's payments. so step by step, very common studies, but an industry you want to and money. so you have that you're having a continuous process and handling and continuous process of, of all the impurities and all the process steps and small things you need to consider. it's kind of challenging. yes. that's what other researches say as well recovering more than 90 percent of materials is possible. but this requires optimal conditions, which you don't always find in the real world. if the recovery rates drop, the business case becomes even more difficult. and that's what it comes down to

with recycling. one thing is to make it work technologically. a completely different thing is to make money from it. and that's where the industry faces its biggest challenges. remember how i said that batteries have to be taken apart by and that's because every manufacturer boots them a little bit differently. this means machines con, currently do all of the jobs and that drives up costs. so does the most expensive part of the process, the hydro metro logical recycling. and there is another factor that makes it hard to turn a profit the more difficult forward comes in from one of the to the, to in the market. because in the, in the middle smart tvs, you have a lot of speculation and you can see, for instance, this in price is when you're back i don't know the exact number by heart, but one year back. i think it was a times how you have 10 times 5 inches. i crazy prices. this as you have quotes from b a s f. they just opened up that prototype. black mosse, refining plant in germany. this yeah. and plan to scale up the technology further.

i want to, to, to, to you, in the market. this is a stress to everybody, to mines who cycles right now the prices are quite new, which is a challenge for everybody who wants to reduce investment. basically if price is a high recyclers make more money, but the question is, how much consulting firm mackenzie expects recyclers to make around $800.00 to $1600.00 per ton of tax rate. it's really about how much do you pay when you acquire the material. this is hands, eric melanie. he's been analyzing the end of last batch remarket for yes. so if you get material for free and then you process it, then sell it to market price. so you able to use it and make a lot of money and you will most probably make more than many mining operations. but if we're psyched us, what need to pay for the batteries?

the economics get shaky. this could mean recycling is more expensive than just mining new materials. and this isn't the only issue for commercial size ponds. another challenge, other materials used in the battery itself. it could be a whole bunch of combinations, lithium, ion phosphate, lithium, manganese oxide, lithium, the cold, cold, many um, or lithium, nickel, manganese, cold. and the last one even comes in different compositions. 121-216-2222 or aids. 2121, and it's the wild west out there when it comes to bed 3 manufacturing, which makes it more difficult to build, tailored commercial plots. you have to build them for the largest possible amount of the individual material. like, because i think of a long one, for instance, the race to, to the other components. you have to have a really huge make a separate. whereas if you're having 111, you have to be able to precipitate

a lot of cool. but then you have to have a use separate of course, you have to be pretty robust and that's, of course, driving the costs, which means that some other nice is from some university's predicted costs up associates probably be wrong because they might go to the bottom line is in the real world, recycling is much, much harder then on paper a. another problem for recycling batteries doesn't have anything to do with the recycling process itself. but with the missing feedstock, electric car batteries last longer than previously thought. busy and off so that they get used for all kinds of other things like storing renewable energy, which means that um, does money batteries to be recycled on a left scale. recycling batteries is no issue at all. 99 percent cobalt because it's insane. but on a commercial scale, not so much info that for example, well,

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