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I’m not going to pretend to be as well researched on this point as yourself but one thing you hadn’t mentioned is the environmental impact of disposing batterie
by laumars 6y ago
I’m not going to pretend to be as well researched on this point as yourself but one thing you hadn’t mentioned is the environmental impact of disposing batteries. Isn’t that the biggest complaint against electric cars (in much the same way that fission reactors are criticised for the radioactive matter that needs to be disposed of — albeit the timescales involved are different by orders of magnitude).
- _jahh 6y agoif anything it's the environmental and social impact of the mining of the minerals vs the disposal.
- DarmokJalad1701 6y ago> the environmental impact of disposing batteries Why would anyone want to discard these batteries with precious minerals? 1. Their lifetime is measured in decades (first in EVs and then in grid-storage) as compared to single-use for gas. 2. They (at least the various types of Li-Ion cells) are 100% recyclable. Battery production will probably switch to "urban mining" once enough has been manufactured to supply the global fleet. Tesla recently mentioned during their battery day presentation that they plan to do exactly this. Re-manufacturing batteries will be far cheaper than mining fresh raw materials once enough EoL batteries are available.
- laumars 6y agoThat’s interesting. I wasn’t aware that was now possible with battery tech. Thanks for the explanation.
- bananabreakfast 6y agocheck out https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/ https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/ All EV batteries are 100% recyclable and this company was founded by the original CTO of Tesla to do just that.