This Rokion 4 Passenger R100 is just one of the fleet of battery electric vehicles Vale has deployed in its Creighton mine. Courtesy of Rokion

Electrification is shaking up several industries around the world and Canada’s mining sector is no exception. Mining companies are exploring ways to electrify their fleets, but as the use of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) grows, so will the piles of lithium-ion batteries that were once used to power them.