Today, Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany. The new plant will use an "integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical" approach to recycling electric vehicle batteries and expects to recover more than 96 percent of the valuable minerals and metals used in EV batteries.

Mercedes-Benz today opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility.

Mercedes-Benz has established a battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, southern Germany to complete the battery recycling loop.

Mercedes-Benz is also gearing up to launch the all-electric G-Wagon called EQG in India sometime around next year.

The car manufacturer says it has established Europe’s first integrated mechanical hydrometallurgical recycling plant.

Mercedes-Benz opened a new EV battery recycling plant in Germany, hoping to reduce the consumption of valuable primary resources significantly.

Neometals (ASX:NMT) has confirmed its 50/50 JV with Europe’s SMS Group GmbH, called Primobius, is now crucial to Mercedes Benz’s battery recycling strategy. Primobius has been seeking to incorporate Neometals’ Li-ion battery recycling capabilities into Mercedes’ larger overhead recycling strategy where European jurisdiction Germany arguably has a

Mercedes-Benz opens Europe’s first battery recycling plant using an innovative process that the automaker says enables recycling rate to more than 96%.