China's first batch of new energy vehicles entering the replacement period battery recycling is imminent

China’s first batch of new energy vehicles has reached its fifth year. According to the current battery warranty terms provided by mainstream automakers, the battery life of most new energy vehicles is 5-8 years, which means that the replacement period of the first batch of new energy vehicles has arrived.

The first batch of new energy vehicles that need to be replaced are mostly purchased during the period 2012-2013. At that time, the amount of new energy vehicles was small, so the current replacement problem is not outstanding. However, this number is skyrocketing year after year. According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the output of new energy vehicles in 2015 was 379,900 units, a four-fold increase from 2014 and an increase of more than 13 times compared with 2012. If the calculation period is 5-8 years, before 2020, the new energy used cars will usher in explosive growth, and the same period will increase the used batteries and new energy scrapped cars.

The core of new energy vehicles is the power battery. Improper disposal of used lithium batteries can cause danger or environmental pollution. It is understood that the positive electrode material of the power battery may cause heavy metal pollution, and the electrolyte is also highly corrosive and easily generates toxic chemical gases. Some discarded batteries also carry energy, which can cause fire or explosion if not handled properly. Therefore, while paying attention to the needs of individual car owners to replace old cars, it is more worth worrying about, as well as the scrapping and dismantling of new energy vehicles and battery recycling.

At present, it is only three years away from 2020. However, the follow-up industry chain of new energy vehicles is still in the pioneering stage. Can its development keep pace with capacity growth? For the time being, the situation is worrying.

Second-hand car market is cold

In 2013, Mr. Li spent more than 270,000 yuan to buy a new energy E150 from Beiqi. Four years later, he took a fancy to a new car and wanted to sell the old car in his hand. As a result, when I went to the used car market, the car dealer told him that he was only willing to pay 40,000 yuan to collect the car, and he needed Mr. Li to pay 20,000 yuan before he signed the contract. What makes Mr. Li feel more helpless is that there is only one car in the entire used car market that is willing to accept him. Other businesses have heard that the new energy car simply said that it does not provide this service. Seeing this situation, Mr. Li had no choice but to sell it. He told reporters: "I have the value of driving this car, and selling it is not worth the money."

In response, the reporter went to Guangzhou Guangjun used car market to interview the salesman Liu Shifu, he said: "Who dares to accept? You see that the Lexus hybrid version of the door has been sold for two years, there is no market." He explained to reporters that the current new-energy car used car market has not yet formed, the acceptance of new energy vehicles is inherently low, and the new energy used cars are not subsidized, consumers are even less interested. "A new energy vehicle will be sold in one or two years, and it will definitely die." Master Liu said.

In addition to the lack of market, another concern for car dealers is the cost of repairing and replacing power batteries. Most of the cars brought by the owner are close to the replacement period, and the possibility of the battery being broken is high. If the second-hand car dealers receive a new energy car and the battery is broken, they have to replace the battery with 70,000 yuan, which will be a huge burden for them. In addition, the battery repair and maintenance costs of new energy vehicles are relatively high. According to the current turnover rate of new energy used cars, Master Liu told reporters that "how to do it is not cost-effective."

"It will still be collected, but the price will be very low." Another car dealer, Wang Shifu, said that last week, some car owners took more than 400,000 yuan of new energy vehicles to ask for price, but he shouted 130,000 yuan. After the price of the car, the owner turned around and left. "He doesn't want to sell me, I don't want to collect it. What if I can't sell it?" Master Wang told reporters, "There must be a market for used cars, but new energy vehicles don't talk to the owners. Good to buy, who wants to do it?"

It is reported that several brands represented by BYD have launched a new energy vehicle replacement policy. However, the reporter asked a number of Guangzhou BYD dealers, said that they have not received notice of this business, they also said that 4S stores are not responsible for recycling new energy used cars, for battery recycling and other issues are "don't know."

New energy used cars that have been unable to get rid of have become the heart of many car owners. Many netizens have written strategies to explore how to “get rid of old love”, but in addition to time-based leasing and the second-hand car market, they can’t find other ways. The path handles the old car. If you just want to change a new car, the owner can still open the old car to relatives and friends. But what if the car is scrapped?

What about car scrapping?

The life of a new energy vehicle is closely related to the shelf life of its power battery. According to industry insiders, the battery life promised by car companies is usually 5-8 years, and the national policy requirement is 100,000 kilometers in 8 years. However, because 2013-2015 new energy vehicles are still in the promotion period, many enterprises cannot meet such standards. So it may be scrapped or eliminated in advance.

If the new energy vehicles produced in 2012 are calculated according to the 5-year shelf life, they have already entered the scrapping period, and the lack of the second-hand car market has accelerated the process of scrapping new energy vehicles. Yang police officer of the Guangzhou Traffic Police Brigade told the reporter that there are usually two situations in which the car can not be sold or not. One is to meet the national compulsory retirement standard and can no longer travel on the road, and can only be forced to scrap. The other is to find a place that will not cause special attention, take the license off and abandon it directly, and become a "zombie car."

At present, new energy vehicles are in the early stage of development, and the state has not formulated a clear scrapping standards bill. The state of compulsory retirement may not be available in the near future. The reporter called a car scrapping company in Guangzhou. The person in charge also said that the scrapping project for new energy vehicles has not yet been carried out. The reason is that the dismantling of new energy vehicles may require professional equipment. At present, the market has not yet purchased the equipment. When the reporter asked what the new energy used car that was not scrapped and no one wanted, the person told the reporter, "That may take a while."

It is understandable that the scrapping enterprises have not carried out the related business of new energy vehicles. After all, the dismantling process of new energy vehicles has certain risks. The new energy vehicle dismantling engineer of the Bangpu Automotive Cycle Company once pointed out: "The new energy vehicle battery pack consists of several battery modules and battery cells, and the sum of the rated voltages of these battery cells is usually between 300V and 750V. If the dismantling method is slightly improper, it is easy to cause electric shock. In addition, when the power battery is short-circuited, its instantaneous current can be as high as 100A or more, and a large amount of heat is instantaneously released, which is easy to cause fire or even explosion."

At the same time, scrapping enterprises to carry out the dismantling and scrapping business of new energy vehicles is still not economical. One of the current battery standardization has not yet been established. There are too many specifications and types of batteries. It is impossible to determine which equipment to purchase for dismantling; Secondly, the current battery recycling and ladder utilization have not been developed. Dismantling the battery itself is a complicated and costly process. If it cannot be sold or sold without profit, "this uneconomic thing, the enterprise will not Dry," he said.

“Abandoning”, “putting” and “waiting again” seems to be the only way out for new energy scrapped cars. However, new energy vehicles are no more than traditional cars. They stop at the top and become waste copper and iron. New energy vehicles involve power batteries. Where are the power batteries that have passed the shelf life of scrapped cars? This has become a new problem.

Wu Feng, a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, publicly stated: “A 20-gram mobile phone battery can pollute the water of three standard swimming pools. If it is abandoned on the land, it can pollute 1 square kilometer of land for about 50 years. Imagine if it is a few Is the ton-weight electric vehicle power battery abandoned in the environment? A lot of heavy metals and chemicals entering the nature will cause greater pollution to the environment.” This also means the recycling of new energy vehicles and the steps of recycling used batteries. Utilization is already imminent.

Battery recycling is imminent

The life of a lithium battery is 20 years, but when the battery capacity is less than 80%, the cruising range of the car will be significantly reduced. Therefore, the lithium battery can only be used for 5-8 years on new energy vehicles. According to Li Yuke, an expert at China Automotive Technology and Research Center, in 2015, the cumulative amount of power batteries will be about 20,000-4,000 tons. With the rapid growth of new energy vehicles, by 2020, this number will go. The scale of 120,000-170,000 tons.

Lin Cheng, deputy director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles of Beijing Institute of Technology, said that although lithium-ion batteries do not contain heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium and lead, this does not mean that lithium-ion batteries are zero-pollution. The positive electrode material of the power lithium ion battery may cause heavy metal pollution, and the electrolyte is also highly corrosive and toxic, and is also prone to generate toxic chemical gases.

In July 2012, the government issued the “Energy Conservation and New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2012-2020)”, which proposed to establish a cascade utilization and recycling management system to guide and encourage production enterprises to strengthen the recycling of used batteries. However, Lin Cheng believes that this is only a framework, and the policy is still lagging behind in terms of specific implementation.

On December 30, 2014, the Ministry of Finance and other four ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Notice on the Financial Support Policy for the Promotion and Application of New Energy Vehicles in 2016-2020 (Draft for Comment)", which clarifies that automobile manufacturers use power battery recycling. Responsible subject of utilization, responsible for the recovery of power battery. However, this is not a mandatory requirement. That is to say, in the early stage of development, enterprises can still develop battery recycling and ladder utilization according to their own conditions.

A BYD dealer told reporters that the cost of research and development and expansion of new energy batteries has been very large. At present, the recycling and utilization of new energy batteries have been carried out, but this business may be relatively lagging behind. The reporter continued to ask about the specific situation of battery recycling. The person replied that "the details are not very clear."

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