EV battery recycling venture to connect northern Ontario plant with southwestern Ontario First Nation – CBC

Sep 23, 2024

Aki Battery Recycling will shred old EV batteries so the metals can be reused

Electra Battery Materials, which has a plant in the northern Ontario city of Temiskaming Shores, has signed an agreement with Indigenous-owned Three Fires Group to recycle electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

They have created a joint-venture called Aki Battery Recycling, which will produce a material called black mass in southwestern Ontario. It will then be processed at Electra’s facility in northern Ontario.

“Black mass is quite simply ground up batteries,” Reggie George, the executive director of Three Fires Group, told CBC News.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/ev-battery-recycling-joint-venture-1.7328249