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Nobody talks about battery durability :( Battery cars aren't clean energy
by grigio 3y ago
Nobody talks about battery durability :(
Battery cars aren't clean energy
- audunw 3y agoI gather you haven’t actually read or watched anything from the EV community? Everyone talks about battery durability. BEVs aren’t clean energy. Cars are not energy. They are vehicles. BEVs are fundamentally more sustainable that ICE cars. Battery recycling is already ramping up, even though we haven’t seen that many EV battery packs expiring yet. Some battery packs die early, especially if they have many miles on them. But then that’s a good thing: those battery packs have offset their CO2 emissions many times over. Battery packs are resource intensive things. They SHOULD be used, not sit around doing nothing. If you consider how battery cell chemistries and battery pack construction is improving so rapidly, then recycling an old battery pack to make a new one is not a bad thing: you get a LOT more out of those precious materials if you make a new battery pack with 100% SOH and even better energy density.