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> has set up a company to solve this problem. It's not a problem, it's in fact a huge business. The negative tone of the comments feels like a an old car sale
by DoingIsLearning 5y ago
> has set up a company to solve this problem.
It's not a problem, it's in fact a huge business.
The negative tone of the comments feels like a an old car salesman trying to sell you a diesel engine instead of an EV.
An old EV battery pack is still incredibly valuable both for second hand usage in renewables (An old EV battery is not 'dead' just not performant enough for vehicle use) and recycling materials (Lithium is incredibly difficult to mine).
- npsimons 5y ago> The negative tone of the comments feels like a an old car salesman trying to sell you a diesel engine instead of an EV. Considering the top comment when I got here was almost exactly that, I'm not surprised one bit. There's a lot of money to be lost by the FF and ICE industries.
- wolfi1 5y ago> Lithium is incredibly difficult to mine Do you have any source for that? My impression was that it is relatively easy to mine but not economical enoguh
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoIt is not difficult in the sense of being technically challenging but in the sense that it has very low yields. It doesn't exist naturally in huge concentrations (you can't just get a chunk of Lithium) you either extract it from a huge volume of evaporated salt brine, or you filter through huge amounts of ore to yield something rich in lithium.
- natch 5y ago>It's not a problem, it's in fact a huge business Thanks for pointing this out. Pretty important point!