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Doubling the useful life of the battery is more than marginally useful. Reuse is much better than recycling when you can do it.

• throwawayboise 6y ago
  GP is still right -- eventually the batteries will need to be recycled or disposed of in some way.
  • epistasis 6y ago
    It was the initial comment mentioning reuse that said recycling was necessary after reuse. So I'm not sure what that comment added to the discussion...
  • adgjlsfhk1 6y ago
    The problem with that argument is that with how long lithium ion batteries can be reused, there aren't any big lithium ion batteries at end of life, so it's too early to expect to see them being recycled yet. The first cars with these batteries are less than a decade old, so we're still probably a decade or 2 away from the point that there are enough big batteries reaching end of life that it's worth recycling them.