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Probably depends on the facility. Tesla recycles 100% of used batteries it receives, presumably by redeploying good cells as stationary storage and recycling th
by starbase 5y ago
Probably depends on the facility. Tesla recycles 100% of used batteries it receives, presumably by redeploying good cells as stationary storage and recycling the ones that are too far gone. At the Nevada plant in 2020, every 1000kWh of unusable batteries yielded materials to produce 921kWh of new cells.[0]
With that said, many Teslas that are totaled have their batteries sold on the secondary market for classic car EV conversions and DIY home energy storage.
[0] https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2020-tesla-impact-report.pdf https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2020-tesla-impact-report.pdf