Low carbon battery material firm Altilium has shared a new film from broadcaster and campaigner Quentin Willson, which looks at its new Plymouth plant.
The video from Willson takes an exclusive first look inside the company’s new state-of-the-art EV battery recycling facility.
It highlights the firm’s cutting edge technology at the 18,000 square foot ACT 2 facility, which is one of the first of its kind in the UK.
At the facility, the company is able to recover over 95% of cathode metals from waste EV batteries, enabling production of high volumes of battery materials for qualification with automotive customers.
According to recent research carried out by Imperial College London, Altilium’s recycled EV battery materials can match, and even surpass, the performance of virgin mined materials, enabling longer battery life, faster charging times and lower costs.
The film also showcases the pioneering work being carried at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), which has recently begun processing Altilium’s recycled cathode active materials (CAM) for the production of battery cathodes, another UK first.
By recovering and refining these critical cathode metals from end-of-life batteries, Altilium is not only reducing the UK’s reliance on imported materials, but also cutting the carbon footprint of battery production, making EVs even greener and helping automotive OEMs achieve their sustainability and regulatory targets, it said.
Image still from video provided by Altilium
