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Battery recycling emerges as profitable local alternative to mining for European supply sovereignty
Recycling end-of-life batteries can produce lithium, graphite, nickel and cobalt at cost parity or below primary mining (especially Chinese sources), eliminating geopolitical logistics vola…
EU 2031 battery regulation creates mandatory demand but tozero proves economics work without regulatory crutch
The EU Battery Regulation mandates >80% lithium recovery by 2031, but tozero demonstrates the unit economics are already viable today — customers are pre-signing contracts for local supply…
Deep tech hardware scaling in Europe requires strategic industrial partners not just financial VCs
tozero deliberately chose strategic investors Honda (automotive offtake) and JGC (plant engineering expertise having built 20,000 plants globally) over pure financial investors, recognizing…