Building Raw Material Recovery Capabilities: The Case of Electric Batteries in the Automotive Industry

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2026-1-19

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Taneri, Burçin

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The accelerated expansion of the electric vehicle market has rendered battery recycling a pivotal technological domain, bearing significant implications for sustainability, resource security and industrial competitiveness. Nevertheless, the complexities of recycling processes, the lack of specialised infrastructure and the dependence on imported expertise continue to present major challenges, especially for emerging economies. In this context, technological learning provides a valuable lens through which to design and evaluate policy interventions and to answer the question of how Türkiye can learn electric vehicle battery recycling technology. In order to achieve this objective, a data collection and analysis process has been undertaken. The data presented herein encompasses information obtained through the National Thesis Center, the Web of Science database, patent data, legal document analyses, and semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study demonstrate that the recycling of EVB in Türkiye is currently at a relatively limited stage of technological and institutional maturity, where learning processes are only partially structured. The concepts of learning-by-researching (LBR) and learning-by-doing (LBD) are still in their infancy, manifesting more as sporadic experiments and isolated level initiatives than as systematic, cumulative capability-building trajectories. Learning-by-collaborating (LBC) functions less as deep, co-creative collaboration and more as basic networking, information exchange and the maintenance of open communication channels among stakeholders. It is evident that learning by using is not being adequately observed, and it is anticipated that recycled materials will assume a more active role with the incorporation of feedback from end users.

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Electric vehicle, battery, recycling, technological learning

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/118334

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis