Old ICE Vehicles Could Soon Be Used to Make Electric Vehicles
Researchers from Rice University in Houston, Texas, have come up with a novel process that has the potential to revolutionize recycling and sustainability in the nascent EV sector. At least 27 million vehicles are shredded across the world each year, with the United States accounting for 15 million of them. Most of these shredded vehicles are incinerated. In Europe, old vehicles are sent back to their manufacturers, which are required to recycle 95% of a vehicle and landfill just 5%. This is often too much for most manufacturers to handle, and they resort to scrapping the old cars. Now Rice…