UC San Diego receives $10 million and Smartville Inc. of Carlsbad gets $6 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy
looks to recycle lithium-ion batteries through a process the lab calls Purification-Regeneration Integrated Materials Engineering, or PRIME. The novel technology takes critical cathode material from spent batteries as well as scraps from the manufacturing process and returns it to the production line.
The UC San Diego team includes researchers from Arizona State University, the University of Chicago, General Motors and the Argonne National Laboratory. An old battery may not seem to have much value. But even when it no longer meets the performance standards for an EV, a typical vehicle batteryand can still be used effectively to store energy.
For perspective, the 4,000 kilowatt-hour system is enough to power 250 homes a day for four hours during evening hours when California’s grid is under the most stress.
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