Abstract
Transportation, a major contributor to climate change, urgently needs a clean revolution. Electric vehicles (EVs), while offering a solution, also face environmental hurdles: their batteries. Because they require rare minerals for manufacturing and remain difficult to recycle, EV batteries pose a new environmental challenge if not managed sustainably.
In this presentation, King Men Teoh, PhD candidate with the EMPOWER project and primary member of the Sustainability Law RG, will present her work-in-progress article in which she explores the critical issue of sustainable battery management for EVs.
The aim of the article is to dissect the barriers hindering the creation of a truly sustainable circular economy for EV batteries, a system that would maximize resource use and minimise waste.
The article also aims to analyse potential policy and regulatory responses, in particular those found in EU Battery Regulation that was adopted last year. The Regulation is the first piece of legislation taking a full life-cycle approach which proposes to address these circular and sustainable challenges of EV batteries innovatively, including mandatory design and labelling requirements, a digital product passport and due diligence obligations for economic operators along the value chain.
But, is the Regulation truly paving the way for a sustainable future for electric transportation?
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