What You Need to Know

Lithium-ion batteries being introduced into battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and future electrification technologies (BEV, PHEV) have a different chemistry, and thus different recycling and repurposing processes compared to traditional car batteries. They are much lighter than other types of rechargeable batteries of the same size, lose only approximately three percent of their charge per month, and can be recharged and discharged thousands of times. For these reasons, they are currently the preferred battery electrical energy storage system for vehicle applications.