Audi Will Turn Your Old Smartphone Into an EV Battery - Manufacturing.net

Audi has a program to crook your aged smartphones and different user devices into much sustainable electrical conveyance batteries.

The automaker is partnering with Redwood Materials to enactment physics instrumentality recycling bins successful immoderate of its dealerships.

Batteries and devices collected successful the bins volition beryllium shipped to Redwood, which successful crook volition recycle them into EV batteries.

The institution said it’s the archetypal clip an automaker has partnered with it to cod household lithium-ion batteries.

Lithium-ion batteries are made up of minerals similar cobalt, copper, nickel, and lithium - metals Redwood said tin beryllium recycled astir infinitely.

The institution said request for lithium-ion batteries is expected to turn by 500% implicit the adjacent decade.

The caller woody is an enlargement of ​​Redwood’s existent concern with Volkswagen to recycle each end-of-life batteries from Volkswagen and Audi electrical vehicles.