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Can EV Batteries Be Recycled? It’s Complicated, But It’s Already Happening (www.motortrend.com)
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This is the big snag with EVs (as with solar panels and wind turbines): how much does a battery really cost if you factor in recycling and environmental damages? (Sorry about the slideshow format.)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Correct about the reduce and reuse before recycling.

But there is one thing to consider: does recharging efficiency also go down with battery lifecycles? Because that is the main factor in determining whether you should reuse it or not.

I had this impression that the microscopic flaws that cause reductions to capacity also produce waste heat (and from real life dealing with old phone batteries that take forever and heat up when recharging), which you don't want or at least need to calculate a break-even point when recharging efficiency is low enough to send to recycle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

good question.

I think that you will find that vehicle batteries become unsuitable for locomotion far quicker than a phone battery becomes unsuitable for a phone. But i dont have any real proof.

I will note, that there are a bunch of written-off cars that have their batteries on the second hand market, that is another avenue for re-using batteries.