Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones
It is a further step towards circular manufacturing
Though dark satanic mills are long gone from industry, the start of the lithium-ion-battery production line in a factory in Vasteras, west of Stockholm, is particularly squeaky clean. Air-lock doors, a filtered atmosphere and workers dressed head-to-toe in sterile white suits make it look more like a pharma lab than a plant for assembling the single most-expensive component in an electric vehicle (EV).
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Inside the gigafactory”
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