Old Tires into Batteries? This Start Up is Trying to Break All The Rules

Veuer

The Chilean start-up T-Phite has developed a way to recycle old tires into a material used in electric vehicle batteries. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.

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00:00A Chilean company has found a new use for old tires.

00:03The company is called T-Fight, and it's converting the black carbon generated from recycled tires

00:08into a graphitic material that can be used in electric car batteries.

00:12T-Fight CEO Bernarda Diaz says, we solved two problems.

00:16One is the final disposal of tires, and the second is the demand that is being generated

00:19for electromobility materials.

00:21And when you obtain materials from other waste, you are generating what is known as the circular

00:25economy.

00:26The World Business Council for Sustainable Development says that hundreds of millions

00:30of so-called end-of-life tires are going to waste every year.

00:33T-Fight hopes to put such tires to use in electric vehicle parts.

00:36Sales of such vehicles have been rising, and the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction

00:40Act is designed to make them even more affordable and convenient for American drivers.

00:45So your car may soon be running on tires in more ways than one.

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