These are good news. However, one of the biggest unsolved problems of the EV industry is utilization and recycling of degraded battery pack cells. You can't simply take an old EV to a junkyard due to fammable and polluting chemicals in battery cells. Extracting and disassembling different types of battery packs is not something that can be done on industrial scale right now (unlike manufacturing). Only on the order of something like 5% of batteries get recycled [1].

Today each manufacturer is focused on achieving highest production efficiency with no coordination which leads to many divergent designs none of which are easy to recycle.

Are there are some new developments on the horizon before the world goes all-in and creates a new environmental problem?

[1] https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/time-serious-re...