{"id":215028,"date":"2025-05-29T22:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ev-battery-recycling-key-to-easing-future-lithium-supply-constraints-modeling-study-shows"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:05:13","slug":"ev-battery-recycling-key-to-easing-future-lithium-supply-constraints-modeling-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ev-battery-recycling-key-to-easing-future-lithium-supply-constraints-modeling-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ev-battery-recycling-key-to-easing-future-lithium-supply-constraints-modeling-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-025-01561-5\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Sustainability<\/i><\/a>, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBatteries are an enormous new source of demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium<\/a>,\u201d said Alissa Kendall, the Ray B. Krone endowed professor of Environmental Engineering at UC Davis and senior author on the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium is a relatively common mineral and up to about 10 years ago demand was relatively small and steady, with a small number of mines providing the world\u2019s supply, Kendall said. Global demand for lithium has risen dramatically\u2014by 30% between 2022 and 2023 alone\u2014as adoption of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric vehicles<\/a> continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}