Hyundai partners with Lithion for electric vehicle battery collection and recycling in Canada

Hyundai Auto Canada Corp selected Lithion as its primary partner for the collection of electric vehicle batteries and modules for recycling. This multi-year partnership agreement, signed in 2021, aims at certifying Lithion's extraction technological solution that recovers 98 percent of minerals contained in batteries.

Through this strategic partnership, Lithion will play a pivotal role in supporting Hyundai's corporate vision and efforts to collect and recycle their lithium-ion vehicle batteries from over 250 Hyundai and Genesis distributors across Canada. These distributors will now be able to contact Lithion's team when in possession of a vehicle with a lithium-ion battery at the end of its lifecycle, for the battery to be delivered in the shortest possible time to their recently inaugurated recycling plant, Lithion Saint-Bruno, in the greater Montreal area.

Commitment towards reducing the footprint of electric vehicles

This collaboration reinforces Lithion and Hyundai's commitment to reducing the ecological footprint of electric vehicles, as battery recycling is one more step towards the circularity of battery materials for a sustainable energy transition.

"For many years, Lithion has been privileged and fortunate to partner globally and locally with Hyundai, a visionary company dedicated to finding sustainable circular economy solutions for its lithium-ion batteries. Today, we are extremely proud to count this global leader in the automotive industry among our customers. This partnership paves the way forward globally and here in Canada by reaffirming Lithion's critical, pivotal, and essential role in the battery manufacturing value chain," says Yves Noël, P. Eng., MBA, vice president and chief business development officer of Lithion.

Since the completion of its first commercial plant for the extraction of critical minerals from lithium-ion batteries in June 2024, Lithion's commercial activities have progressed significantly with the signing of many multi-year battery feedstock agreements such as this one.

These strategic agreements involve local partners as well as major Canadian, American, and international corporations, all part of the electric vehicle ecosystem. Ongoing partnership discussions, as well as the continuous influx of recycling demands, confirm the critical and essential role that Lithion plays in a low carbon footprint energy transition.