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You still have to get lithium?
by jeromegv 7y ago
You still have to get lithium?
- ben_w 7y agoI’m not a chemist — would it be harder to get it from recycling old batteries than getting it from rocks? Because even the battery market is saturated, recycling is the only source you’ll need.
- salty_biscuits 7y agoThere is a lot of lithium about, just not a lot of stuff that is easy to get at. The cost of lithium isn't a huge part of battery cost at the moment anyway (10s of dollars per kilo with about 50kg in an ev battery).
- ben_w 7y agoAbout 1kg/kWh?
- the8472 7y agomore succinctly: petroleum is a consumable needed for operation, lithium is a manufacturing input
- marcosdumay 7y agoLithium is reasonably cheap already, and is in that stage where a marginal increase on scale brings the price lower, instead of higher.