BatteReverse joins ICBR 2026 for the session "A Deep Dive into EV Battery Reverse Logistics", exploring the practical challenges and solutions shaping the reverse logistics of end-of-life EV batteries.
As end-of-life EV volumes start to increase, the industry faces growing safety, cost, and compliance risks in handling end-of-life batteries. This deep dive session explores how battery circularity players, including OEMs, recyclers, logistics providers, dismantlers, and policymakers, can build safer, more scalable, and more efficient reverse logistics systems for EV batteries.
Using concrete cases and insights from the BatteReverse project as a starting point, participants will work through topics such as battery passports and condition assessment, automated dismantling, and safe transport and storage. Instead of a one-way project presentation, the session will use short inputs and guided discussions to surface participants' own bottlenecks and compare practical solution pathways.
Through breakout exercises and plenary exchanges, attendees will identify critical handover points and data needs, and discuss which technologies and collaborations are most promising to pilot in the near term. Participants will leave with a clearer view of the opportunities and risks for their organisation, and concrete ideas for next steps and partnerships to enable battery reverse logistics at scale.
Schedule:
- 14:00 – 14:15 Welcome
- 14:15 – 14:45 Setting the scene: Overview of the current EV battery reverse logistics market and BatteReverse results
- 14:45 – 15:35 Joint presentation: Technical solutions across the reverse logistics chain
- 15:35 – 16:10 Breakout session: From results to real-world adoption
- 16:10 – 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:30 – 16:50 Joint presentation of cross-cutting enablers: data, passports, and business models
- 16:50 – 17:45 Breakout session: Data needs and business viability
- 17:45 – 18:00 Closing
Find more info on the event here.
