Bacteria can recover precious metals from electric vehicle batteries – here’s how

With a method called bioleaching, also called biomining, Coventry University researchers have found that all metals present in EV batteries can be recovered

There are more than 1.4 billion cars in the world today, and that number could double by 2036. If all those…

Full text: https://theconversation.com/bacteria-can-recover-precious-metals-from-electric-vehicle-batteries-heres-how-162623

Author

Sebastien Farnaud

Source

The Conversation, 2021-06-17.

Supplier

Coventry University

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