Tens of thousands of used electric car and energy storage batteries are piling up in the UK, highlighting gaps in the country’s battery supply chain, industry experts have warned.
Despite its early EV adoption, the UK lacks the supply chain to recycle batteries. Up to 90 per cent of the approximate 23,500 batteries that have reached their end of life are in storage rather than being reused or recycled, according to estimates by battery start-up Altilium and its partner recell.store, an online marketplace.
“The UK’s ‘latent stockpile’ of batteries is a serious, growing problem,” said Christian Marston, chief executive of Altilium.
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