OUR Toyota is one of the traditional automakers that invests the most in electric vehicles and is currently working on a new line of vehicles, including its first long-range battery model. But since it works with its new cars, the automaker is also worries about old car batterieswhich will be restored by her with mahogany materials.

Founded by co-founder TeslaJ. B. Strobel, the Red tree works by recycling old batteries to benefit from their material. The company plans use these repurposed materials to make more anodes and cathodeswhich are key materials for the production of new batteries.

O edge indicates that the focus Toyota with company Straubel is to create a “closed supply chain for electric vehicles”, which is essentially the reuse of old EV batteries in new vehicles. However, their attention does not reuse latest generation car batteriesthis is because they are still very new and still work well.

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both the Red tree as the Japanese manufacturer intends to focus its efforts on recycle parts of the first generation of battery electric vehicles, launched 20 years ago and approaching the end of its life. Co-Founder Plans Tesla is to open a base of operations next to the newly announced battery plant in Toyota on the east coast of the United States, which will facilitate their operational logistics.

The American company’s battery recycling method and technology has not yet been proven. Recently, she even launched a program with Ford as well as Volvo to work with electric vehicles whose service life is coming to an end, but not yet showed the ability to support a large-scale operation.

However, as indicated BloombergDue to the extremely high cost of producing batteries for electric vehicles, there should be no shortage of incentives in the coming years to make the battery recycling process viable and cheap.

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Source: Redwood Materials, The Verge, Bloomberg.