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How to reduce a battery’s carbon footprint
Report summary
The EU’s new Batteries Regulation will require European EV manufacturers to report the carbon footprint of their batteries from 2025 and meet a threshold footprint limit from 2028. This report discusses which raw materials are emission hotspots and how OEMs can tailor their supply chains for greater sustainability.
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Overview of the Batteries Regulation and new sustainability rules
- Estimating the emissions for the individual lifecycle stages
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How can OEMs optimise a cell’s carbon footprint?
- Nickel
- Graphite
- Lithium
- Changes on the gigafactory side
- Expected impact and further questions to be answered
Tables and charts
This report includes 9 images and tables including:
- Lithium-ion cell production steps
- Energy intensity per kWh of NMC622 lithium-ion cell production
- Carbon intensity of lithium-ion cell production
- Carbon intensity of an NMC811 cell
- Carbon footprint for NMC811 CAM and AAM
- Carbon intensity of nickel sulphate hexahydrate
- Scope 1 and 2 carbon intensity of nickel from global nickel operations
- Carbon intensity of battery anode material (considering an 80-20 split between synthetic graphite and CSPG)
- Carbon intensity of lithium hydroxide monohydrate
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