Electric vehicles accelerate the lithium Battery recycling industry, and waste battery pollution is on the agenda

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reported on the 19th that a symposium on policy research on the recycling of new energy vehicle traction batteries was held in Beijing, aiming to accelerate the recycling of new energy vehicle traction batteries. The electric vehicle industry in China has developed rapidly. Since the birth of the first light electric vehicle in 1995, China has opened the prelude to a new era of transportation tools. Nowadays, the wave of electric vehicles has almost swept the world, radiating around the world with China as the center.

Due to the rapid development of new energy vehicles, the Prospective Industry Research Institute predicts that by 2020, the cumulative scrap of electric vehicle power batteries in China will reach 120000 to 170000 tons. Meanwhile, with the continuous increase in the price of lithium battery raw materials, lithium battery recycling has become highly economical, which is conducive to relevant companies' business layout.

According to the "2016-2021 China Power Lithium Battery Industry Market Demand Forecast and Investment Strategy Planning Analysis Report" by the Prospective Industry Research Institute, the cumulative scrap volume of power batteries in China in 2015 was around 20000 to 40000 tons. According to the estimated sales volume of more than 300000 Alternative fuel vehicle in 2015 and the ownership of nearly 5 million new energy vehicles in 2020, by 2020, China will only have power batteries for pure electric (including plug-in) passenger vehicles and hybrid passenger vehicles, and the cumulative scrap volume will reach 120000 to 170000 tons. Due to a battery recycling rate of less than 2% in China, a large number of discarded batteries have caused resource waste and environmental pollution.

In order to support the healthy development of new energy vehicles, at the beginning of 2016, five ministries and commissions, including the National Development and Reform Commission, jointly issued the Technical Policy for the Recovery and Utilization of Electric Vehicle Power Battery, which proposed to strengthen the technical guidance and specification of the recovery and utilization of electric vehicle power Battery recycling, clarify the main responsibility for the recovery and utilization of power Battery recycling, guide relevant enterprises to establish an upstream and downstream linkage power Battery recycling recovery and utilization system, and prevent the disorderly development of the industry.

For the development history of China's electric vehicles, the industry generally agrees that there are three stages of development: the primary stage of electric bicycles, the stage of large-scale Primary production, and the stage of overspeed development. And with the official release of the new intelligent model Z3 by Yadi Electric in 2016, the electric vehicle industry has officially entered its fourth stage of development. As a new development direction for the electric vehicle industry, intelligent electric vehicles have pushed the entire industry towards a "high-end" development stage.

At present, in the field of power Battery recycling of Alternative fuel vehicle in China, valuable metals are extracted through the recovery and treatment of nickel hydrogen, nickel cadmium and lithium batteries of consumer electronic products. This form can barely solve the problem of power Battery recycling when the number of Alternative fuel vehicle is small. However, with the continuous increase of sales of Alternative fuel vehicle, more and more new energy vehicles and new energy battery manufacturers, And new energy vehicle enterprises will face the problem of power Battery recycling.

Only one-third of lead batteries in China are recycled through formal enterprises, and the illegal dumping of lead containing waste acid has increased from 99500 tons in 2008 to nearly 270000 tons in 2014. Currently. The comprehensive utilization rate of the "three no" smelting enterprises is relatively low, with approximately 160000 tons of lead lost annually during the illegal smelting process, causing serious pollution.

Although China has successively formulated relevant laws and regulations such as the technical policy for prevention and control of hazardous waste pollution and the technical policy for prevention and control of waste battery pollution, there is no special legislation for the recovery, utilization and treatment of automotive power Battery recycling at present, which restricts the effective recovery and utilization of automotive power batteries.