Podcast No. 16 – Towards the future with sustainable batteries?

# 16

Batteries and accumulators are indispensable in modern life. They are stuck in laptops and smartphones and the market for electric car batteries will grow exorbitantly in the future. This is why the European Commission plans to achieve a "competitive, circular, safe and sustainable value chain for all batteries". To this end, the Commission is currently revising its 2006 battery regulation.

Michael Reckordt is a guest on the podcast. We talk about what raw materials are in batteries, what problems arise when mining the raw materials and recycling the batteries and what the EU Commission means by competitive, circular, safe and sustainable.

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