[HTML][HTML] Sustainability challenges throughout the electric vehicle battery value chain

AJ Niri, GA Poelzer, SE Zhang, J Rosenkranz… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
The global commitment to decarbonizing the transport sector has resulted in an unabated
growth in the markets for electric vehicles and their batteries. Consequently, the demand for …

Critical review of life cycle assessment of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles: A lifespan perspective

X Lai, Q Chen, X Tang, Y Zhou, F Gao, Y Guo… - Etransportation, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the ideal energy storage device for electric vehicles, and
their environmental, economic, and resource risks assessment are urgent issues. Therefore …

Energy consumption of current and future production of lithium-ion and post lithium-ion battery cells

F Degen, M Winter, D Bendig, J Tübke - Nature energy, 2023 - nature.com
Due to the rapidly increasing demand for electric vehicles, the need for battery cells is also
increasing considerably. However, the production of battery cells requires enormous …

Environmental impacts, pollution sources and pathways of spent lithium-ion batteries

W Mrozik, MA Rajaeifar, O Heidrich… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a growing demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for electric transportation and to
support the application of renewable energies by auxiliary energy storage systems. This …

Sustainable regeneration of spent cathodes for lithium-ion and post-lithium-ion batteries

T Yang, D Luo, X Zhang, S Gao, R Gao, Q Ma… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The accelerating adoption of electric vehicles supports the transition to a more sustainable
transport sector. However, the retiring of many electric vehicles over the next decade poses …

Rechargeable batteries of the future—the state of the art from a BATTERY 2030+ perspective

M Fichtner, K Edström, E Ayerbe… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of new batteries has historically been achieved through discovery and
development cycles based on the intuition of the researcher, followed by experimental trial …

A comprehensive review of urban mining and the value recovery from e-waste materials

LH Xavier, M Ottoni, LPP Abreu - Resources, conservation and recycling, 2023 - Elsevier
E-waste is the source of both hazardous materials and valuable secondary resources. The
challenge is to identify the potential for recovering value from this waste stream for different …

Challenges and recent developments in supply and value chains of electric vehicle batteries: A sustainability perspective

MA Rajaeifar, P Ghadimi, M Raugei, Y Wu… - Resources …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) play a key role in advancing electromobility. With an increasing
trend in the demand for LIBs, the sustainability prospect of LIBs lifecycle faces many …

Recycling and environmental issues of lithium-ion batteries: Advances, challenges and opportunities

CM Costa, JC Barbosa, R Gonçalves, H Castro… - Energy Storage …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries, LIBs are ubiquitous through mobile phones, tablets, laptop computers
and many other consumer electronic devices. Their increasing demand, mainly driven by the …

Preprocessing of spent lithium-ion batteries for recycling: Need, methods, and trends

H Ali, HA Khan, M Pecht - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Recycling lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has gained prominence in the last decade due to
increasing supply chain constraints for critical materials (such as lithium and cobalt) and …