The country's first power battery recycling program officially landed in the city - Shenzhen

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers has announced the production and sales of new energy vehicles since 2011. This year is considered the year in which new energy vehicles began to sell. In 2014, new energy sales increased by 342% compared with the same period of the previous year. Therefore, 2014 is recognized as the first year of new energy vehicles.

At this point in time, the first batch of power batteries has been used for more than eight years, or it has begun to enter the end of life.

On February 2, at the press conference of China New Energy Power Battery and energy storage Industry Conference in 2018, many experts said in an interview that the waste power battery recycling market will start to erupt in 2018.

At the same time, it is estimated that the recycling market of used power batteries will reach 5 billion Yuan in 2018. By 2020 to 2023, the scale of the waste power battery recycling market will further increase to 13.6 billion Yuan to 31.1 billion Yuan.

According to the public car, at this stage, the recovery of power batteries is mainly two modes: the use of the ladder and the recycling after disassembly. The use of the ladder is to reuse the batteries with insufficient power-supply capacity in other industries, such as storing wind power, power supply for communication base stations, etc. Currently, the relevant downstream industries have begun to deploy. Dismantling and recycling is to recycle the rare metals in the battery, as a raw material for the processing of new batteries, but the recovery of the target battery has not yet formed an industry, and it is extremely difficult.

Regardless of the mode, the end-of-life power battery has the danger of being uncontrollable and polluting the environment. The waste battery is still charged, and there is still an explosion hazard during long-term storage; the lithium hexafluorophosphate in the electrolyte can be changed to hydrofluoric acid, which is extremely corrosive, pollutes water and air; the electrode materials such as cobalt and nickel are not treated properly. It may cause heavy metal pollution in water and soil.

Volkswagen Brake believes that although the proportion of scrapped power batteries is not large, the schemes implemented at this stage have not answered this question, and this problem will be gradually enlarged over time.

Shenzhen's battery recycling program solves the urgent need

According to data released by Shenzhen New Energy Vehicle Application and Promotion Center, as of December 31, 2017, the number of new energy vehicles in Shenzhen reached 156,726 units.

That is to say, there are more than 78 new energy vehicles per square kilometer of land. It is not difficult to understand why Shenzhen will be at the forefront of power battery recycling.

The power battery recycling program released by Shenzhen can be summarized in three sentences:

1. Build a power battery information management system and record the entire process from production to scrap transfer.

2. Establish a recycling battery management system and set up a maintenance network store to ensure professional handling of recycling, transportation and storage.

3. Establish a power battery cascade and recycling industrial system to enable the disposal of used power batteries under supervision and verification.

In summary, the source can be checked, the direction can be chased, and the node can be controlled.

This sounds great, but there are a few points worth noting.

1. Although since 2016, various ministries and commissions have issued the "Technical Policy for Recycling and Utilization of Electric Vehicle Power Battery", "Recycling and Disassembly Specifications for Vehicle Power Battery" and "Recycling Management of New Energy Vehicle Power Battery" for the recycling of used power batteries. Interim Measures and other policies to regulate the market, GEM, Camel, BYD, Ningde era, Huayou Cobalt, Guoxuan Hi-Tech, AVIC Lithium and other battery production related companies have also been actively deployed in the field of power battery recycling. However, if a professional battery recycling system is to be implemented nationwide, the pressure on battery manufacturers is still huge. Recycling, storage and transportation require sufficient space, professional and professional equipment. This problem is not the traditional 4S shop can solve it.

2. The solution is more aimed at the power battery manufacturers currently on sale, and it is difficult to implement effective supervision on the power batteries that have already flowed to the market. The first batch of produced power batteries may have been scrapped or even discarded as garbage, which became a gray area.

3. It is difficult to supervise vehicles such as electric bicycles and low-speed electric vehicles. At this stage, such commuter tools that do not require licenses are particularly common in the third- and fifth-tier cities, and it is also the most difficult place for supervision.

In addition, we also saw a bright spot, and proposed a mechanism to improve the power battery recycling deposit. For new energy auto companies that have been filed for sale in this city, a certain amount of power battery recycling funds will be provided in accordance with the unit kilowatt hour when selling new energy vehicles. For enterprises that have made up the recovery funds, the subsidy funds may be given according to the prescribed standards, and the enterprises shall apply according to the procedures after completing the recycling treatment.

Brake view:

Although the implementation of the Shenzhen plan has made substantial progress, if this year's power battery recycling work collectively broke out, this program can only be regarded as a remedy. And it takes longer to make up for the lessons left over from the past eight years.

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