A German company has successfully produced battery cells using recycled cathode active material for the first time. For this, Porsche partnered with companies such as the German recycling company cylib.

The company exclusively used battery raw materials recovered from its own high-voltage batteries. The battery cells manufactured within the pilot project are currently undergoing extensive operational testing.

“With battery cells made entirely from recycled raw materials such as lithium and cobalt, we have achieved an important technological milestone,” said Joachim Scharnagl, Member of the Executive Board for Procurement at Porsche. 

“This innovation is a key step in advancing both circular economy principles and raw material resilience, always with the ambition of optimizing progress, quality and resource efficiency.”

This achievement continues the pilot project on high-voltage battery recycling launched last year. Within the project, Porsche and its partners recover valuable raw materials from end-of-life high-voltage batteries, process them into new materials, and subsequently use them in new battery cells for Porsche test-vehicles, according to a press release.

Following the recovery and processing stages, the project has now entered its next phase: for the first time, recycled active materials fully replace conventionally used primary raw materials. The recycled cathode active materials include lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese.

“cylib closes the battery recycling loop, from end-of-life batteries to recovered raw materials,” says Dr. Lilian Schwich, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of cylib.

” The company revealed that beyond the recovery of raw materials, Porsche is placing a strong emphasis on the quality of the recycled materials.

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