>It's not nothing; so it isn't misinformation. I could nitpick over your definition of "a very large amount of cobalt is used in petroleum refining", but the f

>It's not nothing; so it isn't misinformation. I could nitpick over your definition of "a very large amount of cobalt is used in petroleum refining", but the fact that an EV owner creates orders of magnitude more demand for cobalt than an ICE car owner speaks for itself. >Ice vehicle recycling is mostly focused on extracting steel and aluminium however. What other rare earths are present in an ICE car's engine? They are almost entirely comprised of alu and steel, which is why recycling them is so easy. Platinum is also very widely extracted from old catalytic converters. Obviously modern cars also include a huge amount of (almost entirely un-necessary) electronics, but if you want to start talking about that, then we'll also have to include all of the other (almost entirely un-necessary) electronics we own. Nice article on Tesla and battery recycling. Exactly which part supports your previous assertion that "Tesla recycles all of its batteries"? >You need economies of scale for battery recycling to become more significant. I get a feeling we'll be hearing this line for a long time.