Toyota Motor Corporation, along with Toyota Chemical Engineering, Sumitomo Metal Mining, and Primearth EV Energy, is working to recycle nickel in used hybrid-vehicle nickel-metal-hydride batteries for use in new nickel-metal-hydride batteries.
The company has established the Toyota HV Call Center to help recover the batteries. It has constructed advanced recycling facilities for this purpose. These facilities are exclusively designed for mass production in partnership basis with the above mentioned companies.