Japan, Europe to link industrial data platforms for EV battery materials

FRANKFURT -- Japan and Europe will cooperate in recycling EV batteries by establishing a system to share information on the extraction sites and suppliers of minerals used to make them, Nikkei has learned.

The system, to be launched by 2025, is to counter China, the dominant supplier of rare metals such as lithium. The tracking initiative seeks to prevent outflows of those strategic rare materials from the regions and facilitate their reuse.