USABc awards $1 million to WPI for a novel recycling process for lithium-ion batteries

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors, has awarded a two-year, $1 million contract to a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to support further development and scale-up of a novel process for recycling lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and producing new plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) battery cells using the recovered cathode materials.