GERMANY-ENERGY-AUTOMOBILE-RECYCLING-BATTERY

French scientist Anna Vanderbruggen poses with recycled graphit (right hand) and the result of a crushed lithium-ion accu (left hand) with aluminium foil, copper foil, casing particles at the top, in the rough section, and the "black mass" made of used graphite, cobalt, nickel and manganese in the bottom, in the fine fraction next to the graphit recycling system in a laboratory of the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology in Freiberg, eastern Germany on February 27, 2023. Researcher Anna Vanderbruggen peers into a vat of dark bubbling liquid, the result of a process she has developed to recover graphite from old lithium-ion batteries. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP) (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)