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What is the environmental impact of EV car batteries? Making them and recycling them? When we have a billion EV's and batteries in every home with solar, will

by melling 10y ago

What is the environmental impact of EV car batteries? Making them and recycling them? When we have a billion EV's and batteries in every home with solar, will we have a problem?

jbmorgado 10y ago
Well that will depend on what are the materials they are being built with when that happens. The materials being used presently won't scale to such big numbers as you purpose, so it will all depend on the alternative materials being used by then.
- gibybo 10y ago
  They won't? What materials are we limited by?
  - astrange 10y ago
    It's unclear if we have enough lithium and cobalt. But nobody's really tried and Elon doesn't seem worried about it.