Mercedes-Benz just opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant using an innovative process that the automaker says enables recycling rate to more than 96%, all in-house and ready to be used in future Mercedes EVs. Opening in Kuppenheim, in southern Germany, the plant uses an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process that can also process the so-called black mass, which Mercedes says makes it the first carmaker to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility. The plant...