Toyota develops new battery recycling technology

Toyota Chemical Engineering announced it has developed a new recycling technology for lithium-ion batteries. It claims this will allow CO2 to be reduced from the recycling process while increasing the recovery rate for raw materials including cobalt and lithium. The company developed its first recycling method in 2010, and has since been collecting and recycling used batteries from hybrid vehicles. Since late 2023, the company has been researching a successor to its conventional incineration method.