American Battery joining DOE’s Battery Workforce Challenge

American Battery (ABAT) Technology Companyannounced its entrance into the U.S. Department of Energy’s Battery Workforce Challenge, and the launch of an ABTC developed new “Design for Recyclability” category for this three-year collegiate and vocational engineering competition. “This competition supports twelve North American teams of universities and their regional vocational partners that are each designing, building, testing, and integrating a next-generation advanced lithium-ion battery pack and electric powertrain into a Stellantis donated 2024 Ram ProMaster EV. ABTC’s entrance into this competition brings an additional dimension of performance in the evaluation of these designs, as students are now challenged to design battery packs with a design for recyclability mindset that allows for these complex batteries to be strategically disassembled and recycled at the end of their lives. These high-value constitute components within the batteries are then able to be recovered and resold into the domestic North American supply chain to create a closed-loop circular infrastructure, increasing the residual value of the battery pack and lowering overall lifecycle costs of EVs,” the company stated.