Electric vehicles in China: Beijing expands battery recycling

[ad_1] To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.

Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site.

Try again

<source type="image/webp" srcset="https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:388/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.webp 388w,https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:720/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.webp 720w,https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:1024/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.webp 1024w,https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:1280/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.webp 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1012px"> <img fetchpriority="high" src="https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:1280/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.png" srcset="https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:388/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.png 388w,https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:720/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.png 720w,https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:1024/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.png 1024w,https://s.france24.com/media/display/cc491244-c3e2-11f0-91b7-005056bf30b7/w:1280/p:16x9/EN-NW-OOV-ECRAN-FREEZE-CHINA-EV-BATTERIES-BAIN-Lauren.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1012px" width="1280" height="720" alt="FOCUS" loading="eager" class="a-img "/> FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 18/11/2025 - 15:21

04:25 min

From the show

Reading time 1 min

China has some 36 million EVs (electric vehicles) on its roads. But their batteries don’t last forever. With the first generation of EVs coming to the end of their lifespans, Beijing now faces a new problem: how to recycle and reuse the thousands of EV batteries that are spread across the country? Our correspondents Jan Camenzind Broomby and Eudeline Boishult report.