By Shel Evergreen Electric vehicles, power tools, smartwatches—Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere now. However, the materials to make them are finite, and sourcing them has environmental, humanitarian, and economic implications. Recycling is key to addressing those, but a recent study shows most Lithium-ion batteries never get recycled. Lithium and several other metals that make up
By Joey Klender A former Tesla research scientist will join Nevada-based American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), a critical minerals and lithium-ion battery recycling company, to spearhead an EV battery material recycling operation. ABTC said on Wednesday that Dr. Mark McDaniel would become the company’s Senior Staff Analytical Chemist, leading “a team of scientists in the
By Maura Keller Open any news website and you’d be hard pressed not to find information on the growth of the electric vehicle marketplace. With that growth, recyclers’ attention is increasingly focused on the eventual influx of the lithium-ion batteries used within these vehicles, including new recycling facilities, legislative issues and challenges that come
Giants like Tesla, GM, and Ford are going to be desperate for EV materials in the next decade. The 4 startups are betting they can cash in by recycling old batteries into new ones. By Nora Naughton Demand for the precious metals used in electric vehicle batteries is expected to skyrocket as millions of
Embracing new recycling methods could produce more sustainable EV batteries and a less environmentally harmful battery manufacturing industry. By Christopher Dyer Electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling is in its infancy, with the earliest EV batteries only now coming to the end of their lifecycle. Most automotive manufacturers are hesitant to take responsibility for the
By Innovation News Network American Battery Technology Company takes another step toward a combustion-free future by securing a $2m contract for a lithium-ion battery recycling commercial demonstration. Although the benefits, drawbacks, and projections regarding the future of EVs dominate the public conversation, little attention is paid to what will happen to the components in
By Paul Crompton, Energy Storage Publishing Mineral extraction firm American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) has received a competitively bid $2 million contract to demonstrate its hydrometallurgy lithium-ion battery recycling process. The contract award includes a 75% cost-share, and funds a 30-month project that began in October 2021. The program aims to demonstrate that battery
From Waste360.com Ryan Melsert, CEO, American Battery Technology Company (Innovator Award) Ryan Melsert helped form the startup American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) as Chief Technology Officer in 2019 and rose to CEO in 2021. Under his leadership, the company has progressed quickly toward completing it’s first pre-commercial plant, and Ryan received several US patents
Dear Valued Shareholders, On behalf of the team at American Battery Technology Company, I hope that you have had an eventful and prosperous 2021. This has certainly been the case for us over the past twelve months as we now look forward and commence 2022 operations. About a year ago, the global automotive industry
