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There just aren't many car batteries that are at the end of their life in a vehicle. Their lifetime seems to be a lot longer than many thought early on. Other t

There just aren't many car batteries that are at the end of their life in a vehicle. Their lifetime seems to be a lot longer than many thought early on. Other than the Leaf batteries, most EV batteries from 10 years ago are still going. Even with those the volume was low. Now that volume is increasing, it will still take 10-15 years before you start to see the current batteries available for reuse. The average age of a car on the road is around 12 years so you will start to see vehicles decommissioned and many of those will still have useful batteries but we need much larger numbers of batteries and sooner for grid-scale usage.

practicemaths 2y ago
There's growing commercial use of EVs. These will be driven harder and longer. They will not last 10+ years. The point that you're missing is that you can extend a packs life with a secondary application. That secondary application can make the cost of its first use lower making EVs more easier to adopt. This requires more and more material. However we can recycle this material back through tearing it apart, which is a costly process. It would be better to recycle a pack to its base material later than sooner. So the second life use allows for delaying the teardown & reclaiming process.