We are often asked if our hybrid batteries need changing and if they damage the environment when they are disposed of. All the batteries we use in our hybrid electric vehicles are designed to last as long as the car, thanks to intelligent management systems that make sure they perform consis Contact online >>
We are often asked if our hybrid batteries need changing and if they damage the environment when they are disposed of. All the batteries we use in our hybrid electric vehicles are designed to last as long as the car, thanks to intelligent management systems that make sure they perform consistently, year after year.
When they do reach the end of their lifespan, we have a take-back scheme to ensure they are dealt with safely and responsibly. Currently, we are retrieving more than 90% of our batteries in Europe through our retailer networks, but we aim to achieve a 100% take-back rate through all our operations.
If the hybrid batteries we take back cannot be reused, for example as a replacement battery in another vehicle or as stand-alone units to store power, we work with two highly accomplished and accredited specialist companies which carry out the recycling and disposal process.
SNAM, based in France, is responsible for handling our nickel metal-hydride batteries, as used in most of our hybrid electric vehicles, and Umicore, in Belgium, deals with the lithium-ion batteries currently found in the Prius+ and Prius Plug-in models. They both use the latest, state-of-the-art techniques to recover as much material as possible and ensure that no harm is caused to the environment.
We make sure we collect any waste produced in our manufacturing operations and treat it correctly, avoiding any damage to the environment. Using the right processing methods is key to this.
In everything we do at Toyota, we never pass on bad quality from one process to the next, and that applies to how we deal with waste as much as the way we run our production lines. If the waste can be sorted at the point where it is made, this makes it easier to handle at the recycling point.
For example, waste plastic is sorted according to type and colour, so the teams from our waste handling partner, Green Metals, can easily send it on for recycling. Green Metals is a Toyota group company which supports our activities at 21 worldwide locations, sorting, processing and selling our metal and non-metal waste and operating a total waste management programme.
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The economic viability in running lithium-ion battery recycling operations has suffered this year, with prices for battery metals declining significantly, according to market sources.
For example, Fastmarkets'' daily price assessment for lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot prices cif China, Japan & Korea averaged $10.56-11.33 per kg in the month of November 2024 to date, down sharply from $19.91-21.32 per kg one year before.
"The market is in a dip, and my question is when it will rebound. [It] will take off, but not so soon as we would have liked," Nils Steinbrecher, managing director of Korean-owned recycler SK tes EMEA, said.
"Margins have taken a hit, and the feedstock prices have not gone as low as the commodity prices," Chetan Jain, senior vice president of business development at major Indian recycler Lohum, said.
In the wake of the economic difficulties, major recycling European market participants such as large minerals firm Eramet, chemicals giant BASF and major metals producer Umicore have either delayed or cancelled their expansions into battery recycling markets over recent months.
While the total supply of battery scrap and end-of-life batteries in Europe is forecast at 96,000 tonnes in 2024, that is forecast to rise to 252,000 tonnes in five years'' time, according to Fastmarkets'' research team.
Its lithium battery shredding plant in Hettstedt, Germany, has been operational since 2023, and the company targets its shredding capacity will exceed 10,000 tonnes per year in the coming years, Tom Seward, EU key accounts director, Ecobat Solutions, said on Monday November 25.
Ecobat''s UK lithium-ion battery pre-treatment plant in Darlaston, in the West Midlands, is currently being commissioned and will have a total planned input capacity exceeding 22,000 tonnes per year, according to Seward.
The company remains committed to producing black mass and not further refining the material, Seward said. The approach is consistent with plans laid out by former Ecobat Solutions vice president of global sales, Elliott Ethridge, in a Fastmarkets interview published in January 2024.
Following the company''s recent expansion of hydrometallurgical capacity with the opening of its third hydro center in South Korea earlier this year, it is planning to further expand across Europe, Park said.
SungEel HiTech already operates pre-processing shredding plants for recycling lithium-ion batteries in Hungary and Poland, but the company is actively looking to expand into post-treatment refining capacity on the continent.
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