Ascend Elements is recycling end-of-life EV batteries and lithium-ion battery manufacturing scrap in Covington, Georgia. Take a look inside Base 1, the company’s first commercial-scale EV battery recycling facility. When fully operational in Q4 2022, the facility will recycle 30,000 metric tons of lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing scrap a year. That’s about 70,000 electric vehicle batteries per year!