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The rare metals in your battery will be recovered at a rate of 95% and used in a new battery that will probably store more energy with the same amount of metals
by megaman821 2y ago
The rare metals in your battery will be recovered at a rate of 95% and used in a new battery that will probably store more energy with the same amount of metals. Batteries seem pretty sustainable.
- pfdietz 2y agoWhat rare metals are in LFP batteries? Lithium? We have a lithium glut. It should be noted that if an electric vehicle has 70 KWh of batteries in it, then electrifying the 283 million motor vehicles in the US would need 20 TWh of batteries. This is considerably more than would be needed to convert the US grid to 100% renewables (assuming proper use of non-battery storage technologies as well for longer term storage). The implication here is that if BEVs win, then a renewable grid is not a big additional step.