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Availability of lithium Ion batteries from hybrid and electric cars for second use: How to forecast for Germany until 2030

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posted on 2024-11-02, 06:56 authored by Enrique Machuca, Fabian Steger, Johanna Vogt, Katja Brade, Hans-Georg Schweiger
Due to growing numbers of sold HEV (hybrid electric vehicles), PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), and BEV (battery electric vehicles), new market opportunities to reuse or recycle old lithium ion batteries arise. Thus, a forecast of available batteries caused by accidents or from end-of-life vehicles was carried out using a mathematical model. Input data were obtained from an estimate of newly registered hybrid and electric vehicles in Germany from 2010 until 2030, from the accident rate of cars in Germany, and from the average cars' lifetime. The results indicate that (a) the total amount of available second use batteries in 2030 will be between 130,000 units/year and 500,000 units/year, (b) the highest amount of batteries will be obtained from end-of-life vehicles not from accident vehicles, although most batteries from accident vehicles will be suitable for 2nd use, and (c) the quantity of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric car batteries available for reuse will continue to rise after 2030.

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Journal

Journal of Electrical Engineering

Volume

6

Number

1

Issue

3

Start page

129

End page

143

Total pages

15

Publisher

David Publishing

Place published

New York, United States

Language

English

Copyright

© Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Former Identifier

2006083650

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2018-09-20

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