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Biden–Harris Admin Aims to Help Slash Cost of EV Battery Recycling - CleanTechnica

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DOE announces $44.8 million in funding for eight projects that will lower costs of recycling electric drive vehicle batteries.

DOE says $137 million has been put into EV battery recycling and related endeavors.

More than four million electric vehicles have been sold in America , more than double the number bought in all previous years combined.

$200 million will be allocated in time.

Tennessee Technological University ( Cookeville , TN ) will receive $ 4,867,519 to design, develop, demonstrate, and validate innovative compact mobile preprocessing hubs that can be transported and deployed at local collection points to safely dismantle and shred end of life EV batteries.

University of Akron ( Akron , OH ) will get $ 2,000,000 to eliminate the flow of plastics/polymers from end-of-life EV battery packs to landfills, while simultaneously retrieving and recycling them to be used as raw materials.