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.
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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.
That's damn impressive, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for sharing!
Good. Let the CEOs and billionaires choke when their monocle falls out into their Hapsburg Jaw stupid mouths.