He recalls that in 2017 the Ministry of Energy first became concerned about this issue – what to do with lithium-ion batteries in general and electric vehicle batteries in particular. For instance, if a battery is damaged in an accident, how should it be disposed of?
"In theory, recycling an electric vehicle battery is fundamentally no different from recycling a mobile phone or laptop battery. It is just that in an electric vehicle there are more elements – like a thousand laptops assembled in one place, in one casing," Mikhail Kventis analogizes.