Lithion Turns into Hyundai’s Official Accomplice for Assortment & Recycling of Electrical Car Batteries in Canada – CleanTechnica – TechnoNews

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Hyundai Auto Canada is proud to announce that Lithion has been chosen as its main and official associate for the gathering of electrical automobile batteries and modules for recycling.

This multi-year settlement follows an preliminary settlement between the 2 corporations signed in 2021, which was aimed toward validating Lithion’s distinctive extraction answer expertise that recovers 98 per cent of the minerals contained in batteries.

Via this strategic partnership, Lithion will play a pivotal function with over 250 Hyundai and Genesis sellers/distributors throughout Canada, from coast-to-coast, in supporting Hyundai’s company imaginative and prescient and efforts to gather and recycle their lithium-ion automobile batteries. Hyundai dealerships and Genesis distributors can now contact the Lithion staff when in possession of a automobile with a battery on the finish of its lifecycle. Lithion will then have the battery delivered to their just lately inaugurated recycling plant, Lithion Saint-Bruno, within the higher Montreal space.

Moreover, Hyundai and Genesis will profit from Lithion’s distinctive experience in battery administration, from logistics and assortment to dismantling and to lastly, obtain recycling within the most secure method and shortest doable time.

This collaboration reinforces our collective dedication to lowering the ecological footprint of electrical automobiles as battery recycling is another step in the direction of the circularity of battery supplies for a sustainable vitality transition.

“At Hyundai Canada, we are proud to offer Canadians the most awarded EV lineup in the country. As a leader in the transition towards electrification, it is important for us to ensure that the electric vehicles we sell into the market have the lowest carbon footprint as possible. This partnership with Lithion allows us to ensure optimal recycling of our batteries, all while doing business with a Canadian company,” says Ken Maisonville, govt director of buyer expertise and aftersales at Hyundai Auto Canada.

“For many years, Lithion has been privileged and fortunate to partner globally and locally with Hyundai, a visionary company dedicated to finding sustainable circular economy solutions for its lithium-ion batteries. Today, we are extremely proud to count this global leader in the automotive industry among our customers. This partnership paves the way forward globally and here in Canada by reaffirming Lithion’s critical, pivotal and essential role in the battery manufacturing value chain,” says Yves Noël, P. Eng., MBA, Lithion’s vice chairman and chief enterprise improvement officer.

Since its completion in June 2024, of its first industrial plant for the extraction of important minerals from lithium-ion batteries, Lithion’s industrial actions have progressed considerably with the signing of many multi-year battery feedstock agreements corresponding to this one. These strategic agreements contain native companions in addition to main Canadian, American and worldwide firms, all a part of the electrical automobile ecosystem. Extra partnership discussions, in addition to the continual inflow of recycling calls for, verify the important and important function that Lithion performs in a low carbon footprint vitality transition.

Supply: Hyundai Information