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The race is on to build EV battery-recycling plants in the U.S.
Xin Li, a research and development associate, works at Ascend Elements in Westborough, Mass., on June 13. The company is one of several that are scrambling to build recycling plants that can recover minerals from electric vehicle batteries without using …