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Most Salvage Yards will NOT take EVs.
Salvage yard buyer friend | 11 July 2023 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

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???


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KEYWORDS: automotive; cars; electric; ev; refuse; rumors; salvage; vanity
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Have at it. Call around and find out.
1 posted on 07/11/2023 3:25:32 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Who wants their salvage yard turned into a toxic waste dump (lithium batteries)?


2 posted on 07/11/2023 3:28:22 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The old EVs must be dumped in the hundred wealthiest zip codes.

They rammed this garbage down our throats—they own it.


3 posted on 07/11/2023 3:28:27 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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.


4 posted on 07/11/2023 3:28:39 PM PDT by PGR88
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You big dummy, that’s a ’lectric car! Ain’t worth nuthin’!

Oh, come on, pop…



5 posted on 07/11/2023 3:30:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Can’t you get a lot of money for the minerals?


6 posted on 07/11/2023 3:30:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Since you provide no link I assume this is from personal experience/knowledge?


7 posted on 07/11/2023 3:31:48 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: PGR88

https://www.tesla.com/support/sustainability-recycling


8 posted on 07/11/2023 3:35:37 PM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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!


9 posted on 07/11/2023 3:35:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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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!”


10 posted on 07/11/2023 3:37:08 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

It is the batteries, not the rest of the car. Battery recycling has always been a big problem for scrap yards.


11 posted on 07/11/2023 3:38:22 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


12 posted on 07/11/2023 3:41:12 PM PDT by sipow
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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.


13 posted on 07/11/2023 3:41:41 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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To: PGR88
I can see some reuse of old EV batteries, but not for high paying products.

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.

14 posted on 07/11/2023 3:43:43 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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?


15 posted on 07/11/2023 3:47:53 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Tell It Right
How about as incendiary munitions?
16 posted on 07/11/2023 3:50:23 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Also, EV's are HEAVY and substantially increase wear-and-tear on roads, certain parking structures, etc. Oh and, do NOT collide with one!

17 posted on 07/11/2023 3:55:13 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: rednesss

Sounds like they won’t take an old one without selling a new one.


18 posted on 07/11/2023 3:56:58 PM PDT by sonova (That's what I always say sometimes.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

the batteries should all be required to be salvaged with the cost built into the cost of the car...


19 posted on 07/11/2023 3:58:01 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


20 posted on 07/11/2023 3:58:13 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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