JB Straubel, cofounder and former CTO of Tesla, and someone who knows a thing or two about this, has set up a company to solve this problem.
Unfortunately I’m not surprised the article fails to mention him.
Unfortunately I’m not surprised the article fails to mention him.
It's not a problem, it's in fact a huge business.
The negative tone of the comments feels like a an old car salesman trying to sell you a diesel engine instead of an EV.
An old EV battery pack is still incredibly valuable both for second hand usage in renewables (An old EV battery is not 'dead' just not performant enough for vehicle use) and recycling materials (Lithium is incredibly difficult to mine).
Considering the top comment when I got here was almost exactly that, I'm not surprised one bit. There's a lot of money to be lost by the FF and ICE industries.
Do you have any source for that? My impression was that it is relatively easy to mine but not economical enoguh
It doesn't exist naturally in huge concentrations (you can't just get a chunk of Lithium) you either extract it from a huge volume of evaporated salt brine, or you filter through huge amounts of ore to yield something rich in lithium.
Thanks for pointing this out. Pretty important point!