Abstract

There are many research papers on xEV battery recycling, but few on practice-based approaches. The practice case of recycling in Thailand showed that manufacturers could evaluate the quality of used batteries and sort them into rebuild, reuse, and recycle for efficient resource use. In particular, recycling xEV batteries has shown that CO2 emissions can be reduced to one-third by the current cases of pretreatment in Thailand and posttreatment in Japan. Furthermore, if it becomes possible to collect used batteries from neighboring countries and carry out smelting in Thailand in the future, it can be estimated that the current cases can be reduced to one-third. Finally, based on these results, policy implications are recommended.

Keywords: Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries; Lithium-Ion Battery (LIB); CO2 emissions; Life cycle management