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Mercedes-Benz has partnered with an Australian company to become the first car manufacturer worldwide to close the loop on batteries with its own in-house recycling facility.

The battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, southern Germany has an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process that will recover valuable and scarce raw materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt to then be used in new batteries for future all-electric Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

The plant has an annual capacity of 2500 tonnes. Unlike existing established processes, the expected recovery rate of the plant is more than 96 per cent.

Read more at: https://wastemanagementreview.com.au/mercedes-benz-opens-its-own-battery-recycling-factory/