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Where do you get the figure on your home page "less than 5% of the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles are recycled"? Edit: Reading that back stand
by rjmunro 6y ago
Where do you get the figure on your home page "less than 5% of the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles are recycled"?
Edit: Reading that back standalone, I think it doesn't mean what it sounds like it means in context. I think you are saying less than 5% of the batteries going in to new cars are recycled, not less than 5% of the batteries coming out of old cars are recycled.
The latter is the valid comparison for your "Our materials are recyclable", and I suspect it's not the case. The car industry is very good at recycling in general, and the main reason more electric car batteries aren't being recycled is that they haven't reached end of life yet - they are often lasting longer than expected.
Normal car breakers are able to recover more than 90% of the materials that went in to making the original cars. Electric car batteries should be able to easily achieve those sorts of numbers.
- HardEric 6y agoactually the research on why electric car batteries are not being recycled is because every car is too proprietary and it costs too much infrastructure to change for each battery manufacturer. Lithium has a lot of value so recyclers want to get into battery recycling but have made it known they need standardized battery design/packaging standards to make that possible.
- HardEric 6y agosaying we need produce more waste to recycle car batteries is like saying we need more CO2 emissions to actually cause more climate change so no can pretend it does not exist. lithium AA batteries are recycled, a 2000 lb battery is significantly more payoff.