Max Hickey is the Business Development Manager at Li-Cycle. Li-Cycle has several battery recycling facilities in North America, helping to open a new market and increase our domestic supply of lithium.
The Inflation Reduction Act is at its core a climate bill.
While it does lower prescription drug costs, make healthcare more affordable, and enable the IRS to do their job, the bill is really the single greatest investment — $369 billion — in climate change in U.S. history.
It was signed into law on August 16 of this year and has been great news to the clean energy industry, particularly the electric vehicle market.
But we may not have enough battery manufacturing capacity or lithium supply to fulfill these EVs or storage provisions.
Much of our global lithium refining takes place in China, creating an unnecessarily expensive and time-intensive process.
We are excited to talk to Max Hickey of Li-Cycle in this episode.
Max is the Business Development Manager at Li-Cycle. Li-Cycle has several battery recycling facilities in North America, helping to open a new market and increase our domestic supply of lithium.
John and Max discuss: