宝马正在中国从电动汽车电池中回收镍、锂和钴金属

布拉德·安德森|发表于 2022 年 5 月 26 日

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宝马继续实现碳中和的目标。宝马在中国的合资企业华晨宝马刚刚建立了一个回收重要电池材料的闭环。

中国政府要求建立高压电池追踪系统，确保电池在其生命周期结束时可以被追踪和回收。宝马的系统使用编码来跟踪整个价值链中的电池，从最初的测试车辆到已经上市的车辆。

BMW 的返厂电池将进行专业评估，然后再利用或回收。宝马目前在其 BBA 工厂的叉车，就是装配可重复使用的电池运营。在电池被回收的情况下，宝马能够在生产新电池时重复使用镍、锂和钴金属。这些电池大部分来自开发、系统测试、生产，最终还包括报废车辆。

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宝马表示，与使用新提取的初级材料相比，闭环回收循环可将二氧化碳排放量减少 70%。

“在有限资源日益稀缺和大宗商品价格上涨的情况下，推进循环经济，提高可重复利用材料的比例，减少对原材料的依赖尤为重要，”宝马集团中国区负责人Jochen Goller说。“宝马集团未来将在中国拓展其循环利用理念——这不仅有助于环境保护，还将有效支持中国向低二氧化碳经济转型。”

中国汽车技术研究中心预测，到 2025 年，中国的退役电池数量将达到七十八万吨。

宝马承诺最迟到 2050 年在其整个价值链中实现碳中和。该公司计划在今年销售的产品中电动汽车约占百分之十，到 2030 年，预计其销售的汽车中电动汽车至少占比百分之五十。

BMW Is Recycling Nickel, Lithium, And Cobalt From EV Batteries In China

BY BRAD ANDERSON | POSTED ONMAY 26, 2022

The BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture in China has just established a closed-loop for recycling important battery materials as the German carmaker continues in its aims to achieve climate neutrality.

Policies in China require high-voltage battery tracing systems to be established, ensuring that batteries can be tracked and recycled at the end of their lifecycle. BMW’s system uses coding to track batteries across the entire value chain from initial test vehicles to vehicles already on the market.

Batteries returned to BMW are evaluated and either reused or recycled. The brand currently operates forklifts at its BBA plants with reused batteries. In the case of batteries being recycled, BMW is able to reuse the nickel, lithium, and cobalt in the production of new battery cells. Most of these batteries come from development vehicles, test systems, production rejects, and will eventually include end-of-life vehicles.

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BMW says the closed-loop recycling loop reduces CO2 emissions by 70 per cent compared to using newly extracted primary material.

“In light of the growing scarcity of finite resources and rising commodity prices, it is especially important to push forward with the circular economy, increase the percentage of reusable materials and reduce our dependence on raw materials,” head of BMW Group Region China, Jochen Goller, said. “The BMW Group will expand its recycling concept in China in the future – which will not only contribute to environmental protection, but also effectively support China’s transition to a low-CO2 economy.”

The China Automotive Technology and Research Center predicts the volume of retired batteries in the country will reach 780,000 tonnes by 2025.

BMW has committed to achieving climate neutrality throughout its entire value chain by 2050 at the latest. It plans for roughly 10 per cent of its line-up sold this year to be made up of electric vehicles and by 2030, expects at least 50 per cent of its sales to be for EVs.