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A new industry is taking shape. This is the view from inside.
Second-life storage, precision disassembly, the policy
shaping it, and what every pack that crosses the line
teaches us about where it's all heading.
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GreenTech Industries secures DRIVE35 funding to automate its EV battery disassembly line
A government-backed project, AutoDMR, will take GTI's live Southam operation from manual work to high-rate automation, in collaboration with the Manufacturing Technology Centre and Coventry University.
GTI launches robotics, business and management apprenticeships
Company
GTI's first three apprentices start in September 2026, training in robotics, business and management at its EV battery disassembly sites in Warwickshire.
One in 18 used car buyers now goes electric, and that changes what a write-off costs
Circular economy
Used EV sales rose 67% in the second quarter, to a record 110,761 cars. A second-hand market that barely existed three years ago is now real, and it runs entirely on confidence in the battery.
A thousand fires a year: the battery handling gap, measured
Circular economy
Lithium-ion batteries now cause more than 1,000 fires a year across UK waste operations, and fires at East London facilities alone rose 52% in a year. The operators carrying that risk didn't create it, and the packs are only getting bigger.
A record July for EVs, and a wave that's already in the post
Circular economy
Battery-electric cars took 27.5% of the UK market in July, up 44.5% on last year. Every record month of registrations is a future month of end-of-first-life packs. The infrastructure question is timing.
The Earth's budget for 2026 ran out on 30 July
Circular economy
Earth Overshoot Day fell on 30 July this year, the deepest overshoot on record. The renewable half of the problem gets the headlines. The other half sits inside every EV battery.
New York just cut its electric bus order. The battery question did it.
Circular economy
One of the world's biggest transit authorities has trimmed 85 electric buses from its order after its in-service fleet kept failing. The lesson: batteries need a repair route.
Used EV values are rising, and that changes the repair maths
Circular economy
Seven of the ten most popular used EVs gained value in the first half of 2026, while every one of the fastest-falling models burned petrol or diesel. When the asset is worth more, writing it off makes less sense.
Urban mining is now government policy
Policy & compliance
The UK's Critical Minerals Strategy sets a target with teeth: a fifth of the country's mineral demand met from recycling by 2035. The richest deposit is above ground, in the vehicle parc.
Seven months to the battery passport: every pack gets a life story
Policy & compliance
From February 2027, every EV battery placed on the EU market must carry a digital passport recording what it is, where it came from, and what it's been through. The data era of the battery has a start date.
The end of a battery's life is where we begin.
Company
Our founding idea, in full: why precision disassembly, rather than shredding, keeps the value inside a spent EV pack in circulation, and what that unlocks for UK energy security.
Disassembly over shredding: recovering the value the chain throws away
Circular economy
Every pack that gets shredded turns recoverable cells, busbars and casings into low-grade black mass. Here's the case for taking them apart instead.
Why second-life batteries are the UK's fastest route to energy storage
Second-life storage
For energy storage, the bottleneck is the cells already in circulation. A look at the second-life supply curve to 2030.
What the EU Battery Regulation means for UK fleet operators
Policy & compliance
Producer responsibility, carbon-footprint declarations and duty-of-care are all shifting. What operators should be planning for now.
Inside the line: making high-voltage disassembly safe and scalable
Technology & R&D
Safe isolation, cell-level traceability, and why the next phase automates the line so it can scale.
The coming wave: modelling end-of-life EV battery volumes to 2035
Technology & R&D
The first mass wave of EVs is reaching end-of-first-life. We look at what that means for recoverable material, and who needs to be ready.
From duty-of-care headache to revenue: rethinking battery liability
Company
For fleets and insurers, an end-of-life battery reads as a liability on a balance sheet. We look at how it becomes an asset.
The industry's own researchers have called it: repair the battery, don't write off the car
Circular economy
Thatcham Research's EV Blueprint sets out how to stop repairable vehicles being scrapped over battery damage. It's an authoritative statement of a case the whole insurance chain needs answered.
Europe just rewrote the rules for what happens when a vehicle dies
Policy & compliance
The EU's new End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation is the first overhaul of vehicle circularity rules in more than twenty years, and it expects vehicles to be taken apart rather than shredded.
Europe just decided battery waste is too valuable to export
Policy & compliance
From 2026, the EU restricts exports of battery scrap and rare earth scrap, backed by a €3.5 billion package to process it at home. End-of-first-life packs are now a strategic asset, in law as well as logic.