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Massachusetts start-up aims to find a new life for electric vehicle batteries
Resume![A container of "black mass," made from ground-up lithium batteries, now ready for recycling. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0401_lithium-02-1000x604.jpg)
The switch to electric vehicles is accelerating worldwide. But there's a problem down the road: All those electric vehicles are powered by batteries, and when they come to the end of their life cycles, they could end up as toxic waste.
But a Massachusetts company has a unique solution: turning lithium-ion batteries into longer-lasting, cheaper, and less-polluting energy cells.
Bruce Gellerman of WBUR reports.
This segment aired on March 7, 2022.