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Auckland’s Mint Innovation secures $18m to help recycle EV batteries overseas

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 31 Jul 2025, 8:17pm
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer at a Jaguar Land Rover factory in Birmingham on April, announcing the £2.5 billion “Drive35″ programme to assist a transition to electric cars by 2035 and boost local manufacturing. Auckland firm Mint Innovation and its peers have secured £8.1 million for EV battery recycling under the scheme. Photo / Getty Images
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer at a Jaguar Land Rover factory in Birmingham on April, announcing the £2.5 billion “Drive35″ programme to assist a transition to electric cars by 2035 and boost local manufacturing. Auckland firm Mint Innovation and its peers have secured £8.1 million for EV battery recycling under the scheme. Photo / Getty Images

Auckland’s Mint Innovation secures $18m to help recycle EV batteries overseas

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 31 Jul 2025, 8:17pm

An Auckland company is part of a consortium which has secured nearly $18 million in UK Government funding to help Jaguar Land Rover recycle old EV batteries.

Mint Innovation, along with LiBatt Recycling and Warwick University, will help develop technology to extract lithium, nickel and cobalt from used batteries.

Mint Innovation CEO Dr Will Barker says the company is scaling to be one of the leaders in recovering valuable metal from e-waste. 

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