You big dummy, that’s a ’lectric car! Ain’t worth nuthin’!
Oh, come on, pop…
Posted on 07/11/2023 3:25:32 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Most salvage yards will NOT accept electric vehicles. The media is not reporting on many negative EV concepts having been compromised by the present administration and big money. This is huge news and the media is turning a blind eye. Where are they going to put these cars/batteries when they wear out. Huh???
Who wants their salvage yard turned into a toxic waste dump (lithium batteries)?
The old EVs must be dumped in the hundred wealthiest zip codes.
They rammed this garbage down our throats—they own it.
Someone will make a lot of money by collecting old, damaged EV batteries for lots of money - and shipping them to 3rd world countries where no one cares how or where they are dumped.
You big dummy, that’s a ’lectric car! Ain’t worth nuthin’!
Oh, come on, pop…
Can’t you get a lot of money for the minerals?
Since you provide no link I assume this is from personal experience/knowledge?
The costs and complications are becoming well known. For myself, I just traded for $29,000, my 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid for a $73,000 Chevy Silverado pickup. And, surprise, my insurance payment went DOWN $35 per month!
What do you mean nobody cares where it will be dumped”
“No - put it BEHIND the computers. My 4 year-old has to strip and melt those down first!”
It is the batteries, not the rest of the car. Battery recycling has always been a big problem for scrap yards.
Not really. Recovering then is expensive.
Manganese is the most highest quantity mineral in most batteries but it is cheap
Lithium is the most expensive but hardest to recover.
There is a lot of work being done to improve the recycling efficiencies and eventually the market economics will balance things out. But right now it isn’t a great deal.
The media . . . compromised by the present administration...
As I recall, the media was pretty much the same, if not worse, in the previous administration. Biden is a creature of the media. The media is not a creature of Biden.
Some are already being repackaged (reusing the cells) as cheap home solar batteries. I can see them possibly being used to make reconditioned batteries for ICE cars. Or maybe as a jumpstart battery. None of that is flashy stuff that brings in tons of money. But maybe make a decent profit out of low cost materials.
SILENCE!
Someone important decided to call EVs “green.”
Green = good.
Therefore EV = good.
The science is settled. Get on board with this or get called names.
Understand?
Also, EV's are HEAVY and substantially increase wear-and-tear on roads, certain parking structures, etc. Oh and, do NOT collide with one!
Sounds like they won’t take an old one without selling a new one.
the batteries should all be required to be salvaged with the cost built into the cost of the car...
Recovering the minerals from lithium batteries is very energy intensive. With current IC care you just shred the whole thing and different materials are sorted automatically. EVs will need to stripped, by hand.
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