Sustainable supply of battery minerals and metals for electric vehicles. Clean energy integration into the whole value chain of electric vehicle batteries. Environmental, social, and governance risks encumber the mining industry. The hindrances to creating closed-loop systems for batteries.
However, energy storage systems currently exacerbate all issues associated with batteries. Implementing all the mentioned solutions has consequences influencing the power systems, the environment, the total cost, and individual mobility choices.
Such studies are important to develop a deeper and broader understanding of the risks endangering the supply sustainability of battery minerals at the regional and global levels. Anahita Jannesar Niri: Conceptualisation, investigation, and writing – original draft. Gregory A. Poelzer: Investigation, and writing– review and editing.
Undeniably, securing sustainability in batteries should not focus only on the end of life (EoL) but throughout the life cycle of the batteries. Additionally, the responsibility of establishing circularity in batteries should not depend solely on industries and producers but should involve consumers as well.
However, the daily operation of batteries also contributes to such emission, which is largely disregarded by both the vendor as well as the public. Besides, recycling and recovering the degraded batteries have proved to be difficult, mostly due to logistical issues, lack of supporting policies, and low ROI.
The global commitment to decarbonizing the transport sector has resulted in an unabated growth in the markets for electric vehicles and their batteries. Consequently, the demand for battery raw materials is continuously growing.
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