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Topic	Today's Electric Car Batteries Will Be Tomorrow's E-Waste Crisis
Paragon21XX 11/12/19 10:32:54 AM #8:	ocelot51 posted... The article is more of an indictment of contemporary recycling than it is of electric cars. Contemporary recycling methods that will be made far worse in the future by the sheer volume of batteries being produced for EVs. And since it is several times more economical to just mine new minerals for batteries instead of recycling, used batteries are likely to sit around in some warehouse until peak mining production has been reached and the cost to recycle batteries finally becomes competitive (or someone makes a breakthrough in recycling techniques). --- Hmm... <cite>Paragon21XX posted [p:930025427] in Today's El... [t:78154449]...</cite> <quote>ocelot51 posted...</cite> <quote>The article is more of an indictment of contemporary recycling than it is of electric cars.</quote> Contemporary recycling methods that will be made far worse in the future by the sheer volume of batteries being produced for EVs. And since it is several times more economical to just mine new minerals for batteries instead of recycling, used batteries are likely to sit around in some warehouse until peak mining production has been reached and the cost to recycle batteries finally becomes competitive (or someone makes a breakthrough in recycling techniques). --- Hmm...</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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