No doubt batteries are getting better all the time. But they’re still hard to recycle, and and lithium mining isn’t exactly environmentally friendly itself. I’m still hoping for either a different electrolyte or some new design method that makes them easier to disassemble and recycle. I’ll be looking for a new car in probably 5 years, I really hope I’ll feel good about EV’s by then.
The last I had heard was that it was a time consuming, very manual process. That the cells of the batteries had to be removed, opened, and unrolled all by hand. I don’t see in the article anywhere that mentions the ease of disassembly, or if any of it can be automated. The 95% recovery is great, for sure. I wonder how scalable the project is though if it isn’t automated.
No doubt batteries are getting better all the time. But they’re still hard to recycle, and and lithium mining isn’t exactly environmentally friendly itself. I’m still hoping for either a different electrolyte or some new design method that makes them easier to disassemble and recycle. I’ll be looking for a new car in probably 5 years, I really hope I’ll feel good about EV’s by then.
Modern recycling plants can recover 95% of the lithium from a li ion battery pack.
That’s damn impressive, I wasn’t aware of that. Thank you for sharing!
The last I had heard was that it was a time consuming, very manual process. That the cells of the batteries had to be removed, opened, and unrolled all by hand. I don’t see in the article anywhere that mentions the ease of disassembly, or if any of it can be automated. The 95% recovery is great, for sure. I wonder how scalable the project is though if it isn’t automated.
They shred the entire battery pack in that factory.
Beautiful. That’s exactly what I wanted to see. Thank you. That’s a very cool video.