The role of nickel recycling from nickel-bearing batteries on alleviating demand-supply gap in China's industry of new energy vehicles

Challenges and recent developments in supply and value chains of electric vehicle batteries: A sustainability perspective

“…There will be also more than 340 thousand units of retired EV batteries in the same year which need adoption of proper management strategies to help avoiding supply disruption of minerals through recycling, repurposing, or remanufacturing. Yao et al (2021) projected the nickel demand from nickel-bearing batteries and the potential for nickel recycling from end-of-life EVs in China in 2030. Projections showed that the number of Electric and hybrid vehicles that will be place on the market in China in 2030 could reach up to 2300, 3800, and 9800 thousand units under different penetration rates (i.e.…”

“…In this context, future research can focus on development of such studies focused on developing countries, especially highly populated countries and top mineral producers, in order to account for their contribution on future supply/demand patterns (Castro et al, 2021). Besides, future research works should be focused on developing more applicable prediction models and collecting more actual data on EV stock and EoL EVs (Yao et al, 2021). Hu et al (2021) studied the international EV-LIB trade and proposed a trade network risk transmission model to study the hidden systemic risks in international EV-LIB trade.…”

New energy vehicle battery recycling strategy considering carbon emotion from a closed-loop supply chain perspective

“…In this context, power battery recycling recovery has become an important part of the sustainable development of the new energy vehicle industry 10 . The recycling of used power batteries is not only related to the response to the waste crisis, sustainable use of resources and environmental protection 11 , 12 , but also the key to effectively alleviate the challenges of scarce resources such as nickel, lithium, cobalt and manganese under the trend of cobalt-rich nickel 13 , 14 .…”

Risk Transmission of Trade Price Fluctuations from a Nickel Chain Perspective: Based on Systematic Risk Entropy and Granger Causality Networks

“…The cathode of these lithium-ion batteries consists of 30–72% nickel [ 3 ]. Therefore, nickel will be the most promising metal-for-battery production [ 4 ]. There is strong spatial variability in global nickel supply and demand, and the U.S. has included nickel as a key mineral in February 2022.…”