Toyota launches battery-to-battery recycling

Toyota will start a new business model for recycling of used nickel-metal hydride batteries in hybrid vehicles.
The goal is to prepare the nickel extracted from old Dell xps m1730 battery for use in new nickel-metal hydride batteries. The automaker works with Toyota Chemical Engineering, Sumitomo Metal Mining and Primearth EV Energy (PEVE) together. So far, nickel-containing waste material from the disused Dell Inspiron 6400 battery hybrid vehicles as a raw material was used for steel production. The development of a high-precision sorting and extraction process, the material can be fed directly into the nickel-refining process. This allows a “battery-to-battery-recycling.

To establish the new business model the company has set up a call center for the recovery of the Dell Studio 1555 battery and built jointly with Toyota Chemical Engineering on mass production designed Recycling plants. To optimize the overall CO2 balance is planned to transport the materials to use trucks that are on the way back from deliveries. This can avoid empty runs and a better utilization of the vehicles can be achieved.

In the nickel-refining Toyota is supported by the Sumitomo Metal Mining. PEVE helps with quality assurance in Dell Studio 1537 battery manufacturing. Toyota is considering the introduction of the recycling system outside of Japan.