Today, Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany. The new plant will use an "integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical" approach to recycling electric vehicle batteries and expects to recover more than 96 percent of the valuable minerals and metals used in EV batteries.

Mercedes-Benz inaugurated Monday a plant for recycling electric vehicle batteries in Germany, with the luxury carmaker's boss hailing a "key milestone" in boosting the sector's sustainability.

Mercedes-Benz today opened Europe's first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide 1 to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility.

German automaker Mercedes-Benz has opened its first vehicle battery recycling factory in the southern German town of Kuppenheim on Monday. The factory will in future recover recyclable materials for more than 50,