\t\t\tThe city\u2019s first large-scale electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling facility will be capable of handling batteries from about 20,000 cars after operations begin, the operator behind the project said on Friday. <\/p>\n
Chun Yang International said the 100,000-square-foot plant, located in EcoPark in Tuen Mun, is expected to get going later this year. <\/p>\n
According to managing director Kwok Ho-yee, the new facility will be able to recycle up to 97 percent of the EV batteries it processes, a 25 percent improvement over previous technology. <\/p>\n
This, she said, would help reduce the city\u2019s carbon emissions by 20 to 40 percent, while also cutting costs associated with shipping batteries overseas for dismantling. <\/p>\n
The recycling process will also produce about 5,000 tonnes of \u201cblack mass\u201d each year. <\/p>\n
Black mass refers to metals such as lithium and cobalt found inside lithium-based batteries, which can be extracted as powder and processed for reuse. <\/p>\n
Kwok said the black mass would be exported to the mainland or to countries in Southeast Asia. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Productivity Council announced that it would take part in the project as a technical consultant<\/p>\n
The council\u2019s chief innovation officer, Du Yonghai, said it would make recommendations on areas such as production line design and measures to reduce fire hazards.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city\u2019s first large-scale electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling facility will be capable of handling batteries from about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-238366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}