How to reuse consumed batteries from electric vehicles
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ABSTRACT
Society is moving away from using finite resources and therefore the automotive industry
faces a huge transformation. The vehicles of the future will be driven by electrical power and
the use of lithium-ion batteries will increase dramatically. However, after some years of use,
the lithium-ion batteries can only perform 80% of their maximum effect and that is not
enough capacity in order for the batteries to be considered useful in these vehicles. The
Swedish battery producer has a responsibility to recycle all batteries that are produced, but
recycling batteries that still have 80% capacity left would be a waste of resources. Reusing
these batteries in second-life applications would be a better alternative. However, there is a
noticeable lack of knowledge of how to utilise the entire capacity of the battery and such
knowledge has to be developed and spread in order to create a sustainable use of electric
vehicles and their batteries.
The aim of the project was to contribute to creating a market for the reuse of batteries from
electric vehicles.
The project has had both a system oriented approach and a user centered approach and the
project has followed a design process.
The final result is divided into two parts, content and call-to-action. Content includes the
system needed in order for the reuse of consumed batteries to work, guidelines for which
standards that should be implemented and design suggestions for how consumed batteries can
be reused in second-life applications. For both the system and the guidelines, the main target
groups are decision makers such as trade organizations and higher authorities. For the design
suggestions, the target groups are companies and individuals that could benefit from reusing
consumed batteries in their business or in their home. Call-to-action includes a short-film that
describes the issues and a website that gathers all information in one place in order for the
stakeholders to be able to take part of it. The main target group for the short-film is trade
organizations and the target group for the website is basically everyone, since all can benefit
from this information.
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electric vehicles, consumed batteries, second-life products, reuse, recycle,, sustainability, circular economy