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EU battery repair laws are coming. This Dutch facility is getting ahead.
As the EU prepares to make battery repair mandatory, the micromobility sector is scrambling to get compliant. Zag goes inside NOWOS’ Amersfoort HQ where Europe’s circular revolution is already underway.
Part of a €700,000 EU-backed project, Nowos has repaired thousands of Dott batteries in the last year in a real-world showcase of battery circularity. The year-long project has seen Nowos refine its repair techniques, issue a European battery passport and gear up to launch a dedicated battery repair hub in Poland next year.
“Battery repair and circularity has been ignored until now. Fleet operators focus on utilisation, not repairability. They don’t realise how much cost you save through proper maintenance instead of replacing batteries. OEMs never considered repair as a financial model. If you bought a car you couldn’t repair, who would accept that? So why accept it for a battery - the most expensive component in micromobility equipment?” CEO Prins Doornekamp tells Zag Daily on site at Nowos’ Amersfoort HQ.
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