To date, the number of EVs is small compared to the rest of vehicles. On top of that, relatively few of those EVs have crashed or had their batteries fail. Asid

To date, the number of EVs is small compared to the rest of vehicles. On top of that, relatively few of those EVs have crashed or had their batteries fail. Aside from the first gen Leaf, which had an inadequate cooling system, EV batteries seem to be lasting 10-20 years. At least some batteries are being repurposed for grid storage. The result is that there are not a lot of batteries that can be recycled yet. There are groups looking into how to do it on an industrial scale and there are some prototype programs out there to test out the processes, but this is not a problem that needs to be solved in the near term. https://electrek.co/2022/10/14/us-increases-ev-battery-recycling-capacity-with-new-al-facility/ https://electrek.co/2022/10/14/us-increases-ev-battery-recyc... https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/07/volkswagen-partners-with-redwood-materials-to-recycle-ev-batteries/?comments=1&comments-page=1 https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/07/volkswagen-partners-wit...