Lithion Turns into Hyundai’s Official Accomplice for Assortment & Recycling of Electrical Car Batteries in Canada

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Hyundai Auto Canada is proud to announce that Lithion has been chosen as its major and official associate for the gathering of electrical automobile batteries and modules for recycling.

This multi-year settlement follows an preliminary settlement between the 2 corporations signed in 2021, which was geared toward validating Lithion’s distinctive extraction answer know-how that recovers 98 per cent of the minerals contained in batteries.

Via this strategic partnership, Lithion will play a pivotal position with over 250 Hyundai and Genesis sellers/distributors throughout Canada, from coast-to-coast, in supporting Hyundai’s company imaginative and prescient and efforts to gather and recycle their lithium-ion automobile batteries. Hyundai dealerships and Genesis distributors can now contact the Lithion staff when in possession of a automobile with a battery on the finish of its lifecycle. Lithion will then have the battery delivered to their not too long ago inaugurated recycling plant, Lithion Saint-Bruno, within the higher Montreal space.

Moreover, Hyundai and Genesis will profit from Lithion’s distinctive experience in battery administration, from logistics and assortment to dismantling and to lastly, obtain recycling within the most secure approach and shortest potential time.

This collaboration reinforces our collective dedication to lowering the ecological footprint of electrical automobiles as battery recycling is yet one more step in direction of the circularity of battery supplies for a sustainable vitality transition.

“At Hyundai Canada, we’re proud to supply Canadians probably the most awarded EV lineup within the nation. As a pacesetter within the transition in direction of electrification, it is necessary for us to make sure that the electrical automobiles we promote into the market have the bottom carbon footprint as potential. This partnership with Lithion permits us to make sure optimum recycling of our batteries, all whereas doing enterprise with a Canadian firm,” says Ken Maisonville, government director of buyer expertise and aftersales at Hyundai Auto Canada.

“For a few years, Lithion has been privileged and lucky to associate globally and domestically with Hyundai, a visionary firm devoted to discovering sustainable round financial system options for its lithium-ion batteries. At this time, we’re extraordinarily proud to depend this world chief within the automotive business amongst our clients. This partnership paves the way in which ahead globally and right here in Canada by reaffirming Lithion’s vital, pivotal and important position within the battery manufacturing worth chain,” says Yves Noël, P. Eng., MBA, Lithion’s vice chairman and chief enterprise growth officer.

Since its completion in June 2024, of its first business plant for the extraction of vital minerals from lithium-ion batteries, Lithion’s business actions have progressed considerably with the signing of many multi-year battery feedstock agreements similar to this one. These strategic agreements contain native companions in addition to main Canadian, American and worldwide firms, all a part of the electrical automobile ecosystem. Extra partnership discussions, in addition to the continual inflow of recycling calls for, verify the vital and important position that Lithion performs in a low carbon footprint vitality transition.

Supply: Hyundai Information