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Once you factor in the environmental cost associated with production, I'm not sure it's as clear cut. Batteries are nasty.
by mrswag 10y ago
Once you factor in the environmental cost associated with production, I'm not sure it's as clear cut. Batteries are nasty.
- hx87 10y agoThey can also be recycled almost indefinitely.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoI'm not aware that lithium batteries can be recycled at all?
- hx87 10y agoLithium ion batteries have been recyclable for a while now-- Best Buy has receptacles for used ones. It's been slow to get off the ground because virgin production is still rather cheap.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoHm. This article seems to say that no process is available yet. Perhaps they're not being 'recycled' but re-used? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214993714000037 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214993714...
- hx87 10y agoThere is no process for recycling /automotive/ lithium ion batteries, but that's because their use is so recent--the first commercially available lithium ion EV (Tesla Roadster) wasn't released until 2008. However, EV batteries are essentially the same as commodity lithium ion batteries (e.g. stacks of 18650 cells that you can buy on Amazon), and those have been recycled for a while.