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> Currently recycling (an EV battery) is an expensive process where North Americans are footing the bill,” Chiang said. “That’s why they’re charging people thou
by dieselgate 4y ago
> Currently recycling (an EV battery) is an expensive process where North Americans are footing the bill,” Chiang said. “That’s why they’re charging people thousands of dollars for recycling. That’s why the stat is only 5% of all EV batteries are being recycled.
Wow this was new for me, it makes plenty of sense to reuse the batteries when they’re no longer sufficient for an automobile - but is that’s something available to the general public?
- sgtnoodle 4y agoNo one is repurposing whole packs because they are only gotten rid of after they've completely failed. Repurposing individual battery cells is difficult when they're tightly integrated into a battery pack. They're welded in, and often entombed in wax, foam or adhesives. If you can disassemble down to a module level, then you have a shot. Usually when an EV pack fails, it's due to a single module going bad. There's a pretty good sized industry to refurbish failed Prius battery packs by disassembling them down to modules, and then characterizing the modules and matching them back up with similarly degraded but otherwise healthy modules across many battery packs.