LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Common Motors will obtain $7,999,997 in federal funding to automate the sorting and de-hazarding of end-of-life electrical car batteries, the U.S. Division of Vitality introduced Thursday.
The grant is a part of over $44.8 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation (BIL) for eight initiatives across the nation that can try to decrease the price of electrical automobiles by decreasing the prices of recycling EV batteries and their parts. That is meant to complement $92 million in beforehand allotted funds for EV battery recycling and equitable EV entry.
“The United States is securing a resilient domestic battery supply chain, thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic investments in innovation and battery recycling efforts,” mentioned U.S. Secretary of Vitality Jennifer M. Granholm. “Finding new life for used batteries will significantly reduce pollution and our reliance on other nations, while lowering costs and supporting the clean energy transition.”
Every undertaking will sort out a person facet of EV battery recycling. See full particulars under:
Common Motors LLC (Pontiac, MI) will obtain $7,999,997 to develop and reveal an automated sorting and de-hazarding system for end-of-life EV batteries, with an goal of creating methods that can be utilized by automotive recyclers, sellers, and mechanic retailers.
B2U Storage Options, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) will obtain $3,461,724 to design, fabricate, take a look at, and reveal a low-cost, reusable, stackable, fire-resistant, compliant, and real-time monitored system for transporting second-life and faulty, broken, or recycled EV batteries.
Caterpillar Inc (Chillicothe, IL) will obtain $5,039,849 to develop a brand new or improved battery pack design for off-highway (non-light obligation) car batteries that can lead to a extra environment friendly dismantling course of and discover revolutionary applied sciences geared toward lowering labor time wanted for dismantling.
ReJoule Integrated (Sign Hill, CA) will obtain $6,316,383 to develop and scale a know-how for EV battery diagnostics that can test for system-level security hazards and detect harm or defects on the level of assortment.
Rochester Institute of Know-how (Rochester, NY) will obtain $7,107,540 to develop and reveal a course of that accelerates situation evaluation of collected EV batteries and semi-automates dismantling of end-of-life EV batteries utilizing machine studying.
Siemens Company, Know-how (Princeton, NJ) will obtain $7,998,766 to reveal an automatic strategy for battery disassembly and apply learnings in the direction of designing batteries which might be extra simply disassembled.
Tennessee Technological College (Cookeville, TN) will obtain $4,867,519 to design, develop, reveal, and validate revolutionary compact cell preprocessing hubs that may be transported and deployed at native assortment factors to securely dismantle and shred end-of-life EV batteries.
College of Akron (Akron, OH) will obtain $2,000,000 to remove the stream of plastics/polymers from end-of-life EV battery packs to landfills, whereas concurrently retrieving and recycling them for use as uncooked supplies for brand new batteries.
