Online Workshop
Powering Circularity:
Defining the EV Battery Value Chain
Date: 12 March 2025
Time: 11 a.m. CET
As the demand for batteries surges, ensuring a sustainable end-of-life process is more critical than ever.
Our workshop brings together experts from the Recirculate Project to explore the battery recycling, end-of-life and second life value chain and share the Project’s findings so far, including ways to optimise it for a more circular future.
Powering Circularity: Defining the EV Battery Value Chain
Online Workshop
Date: 12 March 2025 | Time: 11 a.m. CET
What We’ll Cover
Mapping the Stakeholders
A successful EV battery second life ecosystem depends on seamless collaboration. We will define key stakeholders—including raw material suppliers, battery manufacturers, OEMs, recyclers, logistics and other service providers as well as regulators and consumers—and explore their essential roles in driving circularity.
Exploring Value Chain Improvements
Each player in the battery ecosystem can contribute to better post-end-of-life usage and recycling, including:
- Raw material & battery material suppliers: Standardizing reporting on material composition for transparency.
- Battery manufacturers: Designing for easier dismantling and increasing the use of recycled materials.
- OEMs: Facilitating collection schemes and incentivizing battery returns.
- Consumers: Boosting collection rates and responsible disposal.
- Recycling companies: Optimizing processes for higher material recovery efficiency.
- Material processors: Ensuring the consistency and quality of recycled materials.
- Logistics providers: Enhancing safe handling and compliance for hazardous materials.
- Governments & regulators: Driving incentives for circularity and standardizing recycling criteria.
- Research institutions: Innovating more efficient and environmentally friendly recycling methods.
- Technology providers: Improving tracking, traceability, and streamlining the entire process.
Understanding the Challenges
Recycling and giving batteries second life presents a range of technical, economic, logistical, and regulatory hurdles, for example:
- Technical: Complex battery chemistries, intricate designs, and inconsistent recycled material quality.
- Economic: High recycling costs compared to virgin material production.
- Logistical: Gaps in collection, transportation, and processing infrastructure.
- Regulatory: Lack of standardization and clear incentives for circularity.
Our workshop will deep dive into the key challenges and explore industry-driven solutions
Addressing Real-World Challenges
Using insights from Recirculate members, we will discuss specific industry pain points and the solutions being developed to tackle them.
The Role of Battery and Product Passports and the Battery Marketplace
To support circularity, digital tools such as Battery Marketplaces and Battery Passports are becoming essential:
Battery Passports
Provide a digital record of each battery’s materials, chemistry, and lifecycle history. They help stakeholders across the value chain track and optimize battery usage, making the assessment, repair, reuse and recycling of batteries and its components more efficient and transparent.
A Battery Marketplace
facilitates the exchange of used batteries, second-life applications and related services. These platforms create opportunities for reusing batteries before they reach the recycling stage, maximizing their lifecycle.
Who will
be interested?
- Raw material suppliers
- Battery material suppliers
- Battery manufacturers
- OEMs
- EV Battery assessment and repair services
- Second-Life application providers
- Battery recycling companies
- Logistic and other service providers
- Authorities and policy makers
- Industry Associations and NGOs
- Researchers and consultants
Experts
Ella Cullen
Ella is Co-founder & CMO of Minespider. Ella is a UNECE expert in blockchain traceability, a mentor for DLT Talents and CV Labs Incubator, was awarded Young Female Mining Professional of the Year 2024 (Eira Thomas Award) and was recognized as one of 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining 2023
Volker Krümpel
Volker is Co-Founder of Minespider and General Counsel. As an Attorney at Law, Volker has extensive experience working in compliance. Before joining Minespider, he served as Senior Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer for the NASDAQ listed Hanwha Group, with headquarters in South Korea and Germany.