What are the new measures for recycling used batteries?

The crazy power battery market is worrying the industry, and the future of the power battery is even more interesting. According to the prediction of relevant institutions, by 2020, the cumulative scrap of electric vehicles in China will reach 12-17 million tons. At that time, where will these power batteries go?

In December 2014, the Ministry of Finance and other four ministries jointly issued the “Notice on the Financial Support Policy for the Promotion and Application of New Energy Vehicles in 2016-2020 (Consultation Draft)”, clarifying that automobile manufacturing enterprises are responsible for the recycling and utilization of power batteries, and are responsible for Recycling of power batteries.

Experts said that the ideal recycling scheme for power batteries is to use the energy storage base station or the relevant power supply base station, street lighting, low-speed electric vehicles, electric bicycle batteries, etc., and finally enter the recycling system. At present, GM and other vehicle manufacturers and power battery manufacturers have been committed to the secondary utilization and residual energy research of power batteries. However, due to the consistency and management difficulty of energy storage batteries, downstream low-speed electric vehicle enterprises have security. Concerns, coupled with the problem of excessive battery models and excessive production dispersion, are slower.

In the recovery of power batteries and the use of ladders, the practice of automobile giant BMW may give some reference to domestic enterprises. According to the media, in addition to the fixed energy storage system, the BMW i3's lithium-ion batteries have been subtly realized for their secondary use in logistics robots that have been replaced by the BMW plant.

For a long time, the innovative and trend-setting intelligent logistics system is the goal pursued by BMW. For this reason, BMW has invested a lot of energy in developing autonomous driving robots that satisfy the supply chain and production supply. BMW developed this project and the production cycle built around new energy vehicles as a whole. When making a BMW i3 battery, battery experts must ensure that the replacement BMW i3 battery pack has sufficient capacity to cover the entire transportation process.

According to BMW, BMW's logistics autopilot robots are being developed and tested at the BMW Group's Innovation Park Wackersdorf plant. And their batteries will be recycled in the future using all the used batteries of the BMW i series electric vehicles. When it comes to the logistics digitalization and automation of the BMW Group, Dr. Dekdrell, vice president of external supply chain at the BMW Group, said that intelligent robots enable the supply chain to adapt quickly and flexibly to the changing external environment.

The Wackersdorf plant is the international assembly center of the BMW Group and is also the production base for its auto parts. In the hall of the supply chain, under the drum container with parts, an autonomous driving robot is conducting the drill. The lithium-ion battery replaced by the BMW i3 has been mounted on the robot. According to the news, these robots equipped with i3 batteries can still work for three hours on a single charge.

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