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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
So you speak of the legal requirement to recycle EV batteries. This article from May '21 in Science gives a pretty good synopsis of EV battery recycling. It's not yet well figured out and very complex, which means costly. Costly means humans are going to cheap out and act illegally. One note in the article indicates extracting the used battery raw materials is more expensive than getting new raw materials. When processes get expensive people avoid the process.
There is no bias in asking the question. Thinking EV battery recycling is not going to have illegal environmentally toxic activity is denial.
https://www.science.org/content/arti...dead-batteries |
Not YET. Which is why the law is currently needed.
Go look on ebay for used tesla batteries that are EOL and tell me why someone would waste these batteries while recycling is not yet cost effective when they are worth many thousands of dollars on the secondary market?
Recycling doesn't just mean tearing down and recycling raw materials. It also means repurposing EOL batteries in other applications when they are no longer suitable for EV use.
The batteries will ALWAYS retain value, either in material or secondary market value. They won't be wasted.