Powering batteries with many lives

With e-vehicles set to zoom, fuel cell recycling emerges as a multibillion-yuan business

China is the world's largest market for electric vehicles with 1.5 million new energy-powered units sold by the end of 2018 - and this means, fuel batteries are in great demand, even necessitating their recycling.

Reprocessing of fuel batteries has emerged as a legitimate mainstream business with a potential for 13.1 billion yuan ($1.95 billion) in sales and a volume of 422,000 tons by 2022, according to research agency EVTank.