Norway is the site of Europe’s biggest plant for recycling used or defective electric car batteries.
Wearing a white lab coat and with a gas mask within reach, Ole Jorgen Gronvold measures the humidity of an intriguing dark powder touted as the planet’s next “black gold”.
But this “black gold”—a term that usually refers to oil—is actually good for the Earth.
In southeastern Norway lies Europe’s biggest plant for recycling used or defective electric car batteries, turning them into a powder, or “black mass”, made up of nickel, manganese, cobalt, lithium and graphite.
These so-called critical minerals—essential …
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