03 SEPTEMBER 2025AlCircle.com
Here’s how to turn 9Mt of car waste into aluminium alloy for next-gen EVs
Edited by : Sarnali Chakraborty
3 min read
Imagine a world where scrap cars no longer pile up in landfills, but instead help build the electric vehicles of tomorrow. That is what a team of researchers in Europe are busy with.
Stefan Pogatscher and his team have pioneered an exciting new process to recycle scrap metals from cars (amounting to 7 to 9 million tonnes in Europe annually) into a high-grade aluminium alloy perfect for building a variety of components for new electric vehicles.
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