RE:RE:Battery division Dane Parker, chief sustainability officer at General Motors, said in an interview at the company’s EV Day event earlier this year that creating a circular supply chain for EV batteries is one of the company’s central efforts to reduce its environmental footprint. He said GM designed its new Ultium battery pack with second-life applications in mind and is currently working with partners to develop a business case around battery reuse.
"We actually believe it’s very viable,” he said of second-life batteries. “If you design them with that purpose…it becomes much easier to integrate later. And we’re doing that right now.