As part of an effort to promote recycling of electric vehicle components, the U.S. Department of Energy is giving a $2 million grant to University of Akron.
The University will use the grant from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help eliminate the flow of plastics/polymers from end-of-life electric vehicle battery packs to landfills, while simultaneously retrieving and recycling them to be used as raw materials for new batteries.
In announcing the grants, the energy department noted that more than 4 million electric vehicles have been sold in the United States during the Biden administration, more than double the amount bought in all years previously.
It said the demand for electric vehicles and stationary storage is projected to increase the size of the lithium battery market five-to-ten-fold by the end of the decade, making it essential for the U.S. to prioritize investments to accelerate the development of a resilient domestic supply chain for high-capacity batteries.
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