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Not only in theory, but quite practically. The technology exists, but awaits the time when there are a lot of old batteries to recycle.
by _ph_ 3y ago
Not only in theory, but quite practically. The technology exists, but awaits the time when there are a lot of old batteries to recycle.
- dharmab 3y agoAwaits? There are battery recycling plants running profitably right now that recover 95% of lithium.
- Tagbert 3y agoThose companies will usually explain that those are pilot plants. They don’t have enough volume to really scale to economical production, yet. They’ll need for a lot more EVs to be on the road long enough for batteries to be damaged or fail and need to be recycled. Until recently, the number of new EVs was very low, just single digit percentage of car sales. Now that they are getting into double digits, the potential supply of batteries is starting to grow. It will just take time, now.