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Mercedes-Benz begins building battery recycling factory in southern Germany
Mercedes-Benz begins building battery recycling factory in southern Germany By Reuters
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(C) Reuters. Joerg Burzer, board member of production and supply chain management at Mercedes-Benz Group and Thekla Walker, minister for the environment, climate and energy in Baden-Wuerttemberg, pose during a groundbreaking event for a Mercedes-Benz battery recycling
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz laid the foundation stone for a sustainable battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim, southern Germany on Friday.
The pilot plant will have an annual capacity of 2500 tonnes and will contribute to the production of more than 50,000 battery modules for new electric Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
Recycled batteries will come from test vehicles and start-up batteries. Based on the pilot’s success, production volumes could be scaled up in the medium to long term.
Commissioning for the first stage of the plant – mechanical dismantling – is scheduled to begin in December this year. Subject to talks with the public sector, the pilot factory will be completed a few months later.
The Kuppenheim plant already runs a CO2-neutral operation with solar and green electricity. Its construction is being funded as part of a scientific research project by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection.
“We are sending an important signal of innovative strength in Baden-W?rttemberg and Germany for sustainable electromobility,” said J?rg Burzer, management board member of Mercedes-Benz in production and supply chain management.
Thekla Walker, minister for the environment, climate and energy in Baden-W?rttemberg, said she was pleased that Mercedes-Benz was promoting the topic of the circular economy.
“This is of particular importance in view of the limited availability of important raw materials that are in high demand, such as lithium, cobalt and nickel,” she said.
Mercedes-Benz begins building battery recycling factory in southern Germany
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