This seems to be terribly environmentally unfriendly.
I like to point out to the greenie weenies I know that gas-powered automobiles have a massive and fine-tuned recycling ecosystem that has existed for 80-100 years (and it isn’t just a crusher and landfill, any recycler who wants to make money has a team pull ANYTHING rebuildable or salvageable on a car before it’s scrapped).
And, I’ll bet that 99% of lead-acid car batteries are recycled, and that might be a low estimate.
The $15 core charge on a lead acid car battery does tend to get the old ones returned...
They are recycling the Tesla car batteries too now.