Sustainable Development Goals and End-of-Life Electric Vehicle Battery: Literature Review

Abstract

With a global urgency to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, there has been an increasing demand for electric vehicles on the roads to replace vehicles that use internal combustion. Subsequently, the demand and consumption of raw materials have increased, and thus, there has been an increasing number of retired lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) that contain valuable elements. This literature review paper looks at the following: lifecycle assessments (LCA) of EV batteries, the recycling of LIBs while analyzing what studies have been conducted to improve recycling processes, what recycling facilities have been established or are being planned, studies on the circular economy, the environmental benefits of recycling end-of-life (EOL) batteries, and how LIB recycling is aligned with the Sustainable Devel opment Goals, focusing in particular on Goal 13: Climate Action.

Research on Appearance Detection, Sorting, and Regrouping Technology of Retired Batteries for Electric Vehicles

“…Considering the actual application scenarios of retired batteries [9,10], the battery data are categorized into four categories based on the different correlations between retired batteries and new batteries, as shown in Table 8. Based on the correlation of the batteries, 335 retired batteries were categorized according to the criteria in Table 8, and the number of batteries belonging to categories A, B, C, and D were 21, 219, 88, and 7, respectively.…”

“…Batteries with poorer performance are generally applied in places such as energy storage power stations. Batteries with capacities lower than 30% or 20% [10] will be dismantled and recycled.…”