Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Life Cycle Management
This online engineering PDH course provides a comprehensive introduction to the life cycle management of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) used in electric vehicles (EVs).
This course explores strategies to extend battery life, enable second-life applications, and promote circular economy principles through reuse, remanufacturing, and advanced recycling techniques. It covers the technical, economic, and environmental dimensions of battery end-of-life (EOL) management, including challenges related to battery disassembly, material recovery, logistics, and safety. It also highlights the advantages and limitations of key recycling pathways such as pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and direct recycling, and examines how design for disassembly can enhance recovery efficiency.
In addition, this course highlights emerging business models such as Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS), along with reverse logistics, transportation regulations, and traceability tools like RFID and blockchain. It also covers critical mineral supply chains, international policy frameworks including China’s GB/T standards and EU battery regulations and innovations in battery chemistry and pack design that influence recyclability and reuse potential.
This 4 PDH online course is applicable to automotive engineers, battery system designers, as well as other technical professionals interested in lithium-ion battery life cycle in electric vehicles.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the fundamentals of lithium-ion battery life cycle management, including composition, degradation, and sustainable end-of-life practices for EVs
- Identifying and comparing reuse, repurposing, and recycling pathways, focusing on pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and direct recycling
- Analyzing economic, logistical, and environmental challenges in battery disassembly, transport, and reverse logistics
- Exploring second-life battery applications like grid storage, demand response, and backup power, and assessing reuse potential
- Understanding regulatory frameworks such as China’s GB/T, EU battery directives, U.S. mandates, and traceability via RFID and blockchain
- Evaluating design and industry factor like pack design and chemistry diversity that affect recyclability, and examine circular models like BaaS
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Life Cycle Management”, which is based on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Publication No. NREL/TP-5700-84520, titled “Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Life Cycle Management”.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions to earn 4 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
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