Indonesian Battery Corporation to build EV battery recycling plant by 2031, supporting nickel sustainability
Indonesia Battery Corporation (IBC) is targeting to establish an electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling plant by 2031 in support of nickel sustainability and green energy campaigns.
IBC President Director, Toto Nugroho, said there is an interesting technology that can recycle nickel batteries used in electric vehicles, which involves recycling method covering more than 99 percent of battery components.
“The nickel that we have used as batteries for cars can be recycled, so we can reuse the nickel,”Toto said on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.
He revealed that the recycling plant will be one of the electric battery industry ecosystems in Indonesia, citing that this effort is to support the sustainability of the nickel industry in Indonesia through recycling so that it can close down the previous fear that battery nickel has no solution for recycling.
