China News Service, Beijing, March 6 (Zhao Yejiao) As a key part of the new energy vehicle industry, the power battery industry has seen a surge in demand in recent years.
However, as the first batch of new energy vehicles put on the market face "retirement", where will the power batteries go?
During the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, many National People's Congress representatives suggested regulating the battery recycling market, strengthening the digital construction of the traceability system, and establishing a power battery carbon footprint standard system to better help China's new energy vehicles "ride the wind and go overseas."
The average service life of automobile power batteries is about 5 to 8 years. The new energy vehicle power batteries promoted in China in the early stage have gradually entered the end-of-life period, and power batteries will usher in a large-scale retirement wave.
In recent years, China's battery recycling industry has developed rapidly, but there are still problems such as imperfect market mechanisms and difficult tracking and tracing.
On the one hand, the number of formal battery recycling companies is scarce and their production capacity is “fantastic”; on the other hand, small workshops are popping up everywhere and there are hidden worries in extensive operations.
In addition, relevant national laws and regulations have clarified that the recycling of used batteries follows the principle of "whoever produces, who recycles" and implements "one sale and one collection". Battery manufacturers should code power batteries in accordance with national standards and submit to "new energy vehicles" The National Monitoring and Power Battery Recycling Traceability Integrated Management Platform reports traceability information, but the "dumb" coded information cannot locate and grasp the real-time status of the battery, resulting in challenges in industry supervision such as battery flow tracking and carbon footprint collection.
In addition, problems such as poor "information flow", "goods flow" and "tax flow" in battery recycling have restricted the healthy development of the industry.
Yang Jianyu, deputy to the National People's Congress and Party Secretary, Chairman and General Manager of China Mobile Zhejiang Company.
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In this regard, Yang Jianyu, a representative of the National People's Congress and Party Secretary, Chairman and General Manager of China Mobile Zhejiang Company, believes that it is necessary to regulate the battery recycling market, strengthen industry order and carry out special rectification of the battery recycling "black market".
At the same time, compulsory recycling standards have been introduced, the implementation details of "sell one and receive one" for battery manufacturers have been formulated, the responsibility requirements for each link of power battery production, sales, use and recycling have been refined, and penalties for violations have been increased; the supervision mechanism has been improved, and Establish a "battery passport" system and carry out pilot projects for carbon footprint certification of battery products to help the high-quality development of the industry.
In addition, Yang Jianyu also suggested building a national power battery recycling and trading platform.
Relying on this trading platform, industry enterprises are promoted to carry out source certification, mutual data recognition, and transaction docking of recycled battery products.
"In the past three years, the domestic market price of battery-grade lithium carbonate has experienced a roller coaster-like process of sharp rise, rapid decline, price recovery, and gradual decline." Zhang Tianren, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Tianneng Holding Group, believes that the size of the power battery recycling market Large, battery flow management is also very difficult.
Zhang Tianren, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Tianneng Holding Group.
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Zhang Tianren suggested speeding up the introduction of guiding policies to encourage "regional recycling + central warehouse + nearby disposal facilities", while improving the information traceability platform and building an information traceability system for the entire life cycle of battery production, use, comprehensive utilization, scrap recycling, etc.
Zhang Tianren also noticed that the "EU Battery and Waste Battery Regulations" officially requires power batteries to declare product carbon footprints from February 18, 2025, but the current carbon emission management of each company is still in its infancy.
It is recommended to build a power battery carbon emission data management system, including accounting standards, industrial chain data, verification and assurance, etc., to provide relevant accounting functions for the country and enterprises, and effectively guide the industrial chain to jointly reduce emissions.
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