Renata Michaela Arsenault

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the necessity for EOL recycling is underpinned by leveraging fluctuating material costs, uneven distribution and production, and the transport situation, and suggest potential improvements in the process through mutual efforts from academia, industry, and governments.

TL;DR: The results reduce the uncertainties associated with assessment of BEV battery production, serve to identify opportunities to reduce emissions, and confirm previous assessments that BEVs have great potential to reduce GHG emissions over the full life cycle and provide local emission free mobility.

TL;DR: It is shown that the closed-loop recycling process can be successfully scaled up to 30 kg of spent LIBs from electric vehicle recycling streams, and the recovered cathode powder shows similar (or better) performance to equivalent commercial powder when evaluated in both coin cells and single layer pouch cells.

TL;DR: The electricity grid-based fast charging configuration was compared to lithium-ion SLB-based configurations in terms of economic cost and life cycle environmental impacts in five U.S. cities and it was seen that the configuration LCOE was sensitive to SLB cost, lifetime, efficiency, and discount rate, whereas the GWP and CED were affected by SLB lifetime, Efficiency and the required enclosure materials.

TL;DR: This work compared the levelized cost of electricity and life-cycle carbon emissions associated with using SLBs and new LIBs in the US for three energy storage applications: residential energy storage with rooftop PV, utility-level PV firming, and utilities-level peak-shaving, leading to a total of 41 scenarios.