Episode Details

tozero is building Europe’s first industrial battery recycling demonstration plant, taking lithium-ion battery recycling from research to a live facility running in the real world.

Sarah Fleischer and Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, Co-founders at tozero, share how the team built and launched the plant from scratch, now processing end-of-life batteries into critical materials like lithium and graphite, and using it to prove the process continuously as they push toward scaling full industrial plants across Europe.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:32 - Launching the demo plant

1:40 - From idea to building the plant

3:12 - Why battery recycling now

5:22 - What the plant produces

6:49 - Proving the process at scale

7:55 - Scaling beyond the demo plant

9:44 - Pilots and customers

12:21 - Market demand and supply chains

13:08 - Rapid prototyping approach

14:35 - Scaling to future plants

18:20 - Hiring and building the team