PLANO, Texas and LANCASTER, Ohio (Dec. 7, 2023) – Furthering its mission to create a closed-loop battery ecosystem whereas working towards its carbon neutrality objectives, Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) right this moment introduced that it’s increasing its battery recycling community with a brand new collaboration with Cirba Solutions, a premiere battery recycling supplies and administration firm. The settlement enhances Toyota and Cirba Solutions’ rising relationship by increasing Toyota’s battery recycling community and optimizing its logistics community for end-of-life electrified car battery assortment, together with these from hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electrical automobiles (BEV).

“Cirba Solutions’ large and well-established transportation and recycling network ensures Toyota has nationwide battery collection and recycling to reduce both our costs as well as our operational carbon footprint,” stated Christopher Yang, group vice chairman, Business Development, Toyota Motor North America. “This moves us closer to our ultimate goal of creating a sustainable, closed-loop ecosystem for our automotive batteries.”

As one of many largest battery recycling corporations in North America, Cirba Solutions has intensive expertise and presents a coast-to-coast assortment and recycling community. Toyota’s collaboration with Cirba Solutions will give attention to the gathering, transportation, dismantling and processing of end-of-life lithium-ion electrified car batteries from the Midwest and East Coast areas. Processing will happen at Cirba Solutions’ Lancaster, Ohio facility, which just lately obtained an $82+ million Department of Energy grant as a part of the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law. This facility will use superior expertise to extract important minerals from scrap and end-of-life batteries with an as much as 95 p.c restoration price, then provide battery-grade metals again into the provision chain.

“Our collaboration with Toyota helps move toward a long-term vision of a sustainable closed-loop battery supply chain. With aligned purpose, and Toyota’s growing electric vehicle line-up in North America, we are proud to be a partner,” stated Jay Wago, chief industrial officer at Cirba Solutions.

Toyota presently collects roughly 25,000 used automotive batteries, primarily nickel-metal hydride batteries present in its hybrid electrical automobiles, from its dealership community annually, and expects the variety of batteries, notably end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, to rise because the variety of battery electrical automobiles it sells will increase sooner or later. Through the settlement with Cirba Solutions, Toyota expects to cut back its total transportation and logistics prices by a minimum of 70 p.c from decreasing the typical miles pushed for assortment and recycling from 1,251 to 582, primarily based on 2022 knowledge, and by specializing in the Midwest and East Coast areas. In some circumstances, such because the Cincinnati area, the brand new recycling collaboration ought to cut back the full mileage pushed for these actions by roughly 94 p.c. In addition, the corporate expects that by decreasing the quantity of miles pushed for assortment and recycling actions, it will likely be capable of make a major discount in transportation-related emissions as effectively.

Globally, Toyota has been the primary vendor of electrified automobiles for greater than 25 years, and, in North America, Toyota has bought greater than 6.2 million mixed PHEVs and HEVs since 2000. With a long time of electrified automobiles available in the market, Toyota is concentrated on the right way to recycle, remanufacture, or repurpose automotive batteries utilized in Toyota’s electrified automobiles which have reached the top of their life, a quantity that’s set to extend within the coming years. In reality, Toyota forecasts that its end-of-life batteries will doubtless double by 2030.

The firm additionally has a brand new plant for automotive batteries, Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), presently beneath building that’s anticipated to go surfing in 2025 and has a complete introduced funding of almost $14 billion. Originally introduced in 2021, the North Carolina facility may have a phased ramp up for manufacturing and can assist the creation of greater than 5,000 new jobs to assist automobiles assembled in North America.

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