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Are they? Old lead battery are highly recyclable but AFAIK the type used in EV's (and in many electronic devices such as laptops and phones) such as Li-Ion are
by jaclaz 4y ago
Are they?
Old lead battery are highly recyclable but AFAIK the type used in EV's (and in many electronic devices such as laptops and phones) such as Li-Ion are not (easily) recyclable right now.
Hopefully by the time discarded batteries will increase in number there will be solutions, but right now there are only some "pilot" plants/technologies, see:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56574779 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56574779
And:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29110314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29110314
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29128408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29128408
- rootusrootus 4y agoIt is not particularly economical to recycle EV batteries yet because they're still worth a lot more on the secondary market for non-mobile use. When we have a surplus of them, it will be cheaper to reclaim the lithium from the old batteries than it is to mine new lithium.