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Disposal costs will likely be higher for electric cars. Huge battery packs with lots of lead-acid and/or lithium inside. Seems like a good externalized cost to
by omegaworks 9y ago
Disposal costs will likely be higher for electric cars. Huge battery packs with lots of lead-acid and/or lithium inside.
Seems like a good externalized cost to target.
- abraae 9y agoLead-acid batteries are the poster boys of recycling.
- douche 9y agoTrue. Almost every bullet that is produced today is made from recycled car batteries.
- pi-rat 9y agoCells from EVs will likely be downcycled for use as stationary storage (think Tesla's Powerwall and similar). Often only a couple of cells go bad in a pack, so they are easy to repurpose. In Norway some of the larger charging sites have huge stationary batteries as buffers (evens out spikes and act as phase balancing). You can recycle 100% of the lithium in a li-ion battery, but atm it's more costly to recycle than just mine the stuff - hopefully this will change in the near future.
- _pmf_ 9y ago> Cells from EVs will likely be downcycled for use as stationary storage (think Tesla's Powerwall and similar). Highly unlikely due to liability reasons. Remember the Galaxy 8? QC for batteries is demanding; QC for refurbished batteries is impossible.