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Battery Circular Economy Initiative

Dashboards

The Battery Mineral Loop – Global

This dashboard allows users to explore the six solutions presented in RMI’s The Battery Mineral Loop report. Interactive scenarios enable a wide range of analyses on how efficiency, innovation, and circularity can reduce demand for mined minerals.

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The Battery Supply Chain – United States

This dashboard is aimed at helping EV battery stakeholders build a strong, resilient, circular battery economy in the United States by quantifying supply gaps in key manufacturing segments and the opportunity to meet mineral demand through recycling.

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Triple Bottomline

RMI’s new Battery Circular Economy Initiative Dashboard can help EV battery stakeholders make data-driven planning and investment decisions.

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Articles

The Battery Minerals Loop

Even as battery demand surges, the combined forces of efficiency, innovation, and circularity will drive peak demand for mined minerals within a decade — and may even avoid mineral extraction altogether by 2050.

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Battery Recycling: How Accounting for Social and Environmental Benefits Boosts Returns

Battery recycling needs long-term investment, supportive policies, and incentives to unlock its social, environmental, and financial potential.

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Understanding How EV Battery Recycling Can Address Future Mineral Supply Gaps

RMI’s new Battery Circular Economy Initiative Dashboard can help EV battery stakeholders make data-driven planning and investment decisions.

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To Decarbonize Transportation, We Must Invest in the US EV Battery Supply Chain

A circular EV battery economy can help strengthen the US EV battery supply chain and meet the nation’s growing demand for EVs. Here’s how to get there.

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How Policy Can Advance a Circular Battery Economy

Learn about the five critical elements that can help mitigate the risks associated with battery production while strengthening the EV battery supply chain.

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Measuring Gaps in Supply and Demand for EV Battery Materials in the United States

RMI’s paper sheds light on the state of today’s EVB supply chain and can inform investment and policy decisions; it can also clarify how much of the battery supply is expected to qualify for IRA incentives in the future by presenting a methodology for quantifying the gap between supply and demand of inputs and subcomponents along all major stages of the EVB supply chain.

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The EV Battery Supply Chain Explained

This primer includes an overview of the steps involved in the EV battery supply chain, the challenges it faces, and opportunities to improve it. Local and national governments, policymakers, and private and public sector actors can use it as a starting-point resource to further explore these important issues.

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Stuck in the Middle

Strengthening the EV Battery Supply Chain's Midstream Will Be Critical to Transportation Electrification

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Battery Circular Economy Initiative Dashboard

RMI's Battery Circular Economy Initiative (BCEI) Dashboard gives EV battery stakeholders critical insights on today and tomorrow's supply chain gaps. With this information, they can advance a circular battery economy and make informed decisions to ensure the supply chain can meet increasing demand for electric vehicles

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Electric Vehicle (EV) and Battery Manufacturing in the Great Lakes Region

The Great Lakes region is well poised to compete in the emerging EV and battery supply chain industries if the proper policy choices are made.

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