Coventry University researchers discover bacteria can recover precious metals from electric vehicle batteries
By Renewable Energy Magazine Researchers from Coventry University’s Centre for Sports, Exercise and Life Sciences have developed a new environmentally friendly solution for recycling electric vehicle (EV) batteries by recovering all metals in them using a process called bioleaching. Bioleaching, also known as bio-mining, employs microbes to oxidise metals as part of their metabolism. The process has …