{"id":357060,"date":"2026-07-07T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/pet-bottles-could-become-battery-graphite-for-evs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:06:27","slug":"pet-bottles-could-become-battery-graphite-for-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/pet-bottles-could-become-battery-graphite-for-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"PET bottles could become battery graphite for EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/pet-bottles-could-become-battery-graphite-for-evs.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>Researchers at Penn State University claim to have developed a process that converts PET plastic from beverage bottles into high-quality synthetic graphite. According to the researchers, the material could serve as anode material for lithium-ion batteries in the future, simultaneously recycling plastic waste and meeting the demand for battery graphite. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/07\/07\/pet-bottles-could-become-battery-graphite-for-evs\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Penn State University claim to have developed a process that converts PET plastic from beverage bottles into high-quality synthetic graphite. According to the researchers, the material could serve as anode material for lithium-ion batteries in the future, simultaneously recycling plastic waste and meeting the demand for battery graphite&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/pet-bottles-could-become-battery-graphite-for-evs\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":357061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}