You big dummy, that’s a ’lectric car! Ain’t worth nuthin’!
Oh, come on, pop…
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!
It is the batteries, not the rest of the car. Battery recycling has always been a big problem for scrap yards.
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.
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!
the batteries should all be required to be salvaged with the cost built into the cost of the car...
Here in western slope Colorado, it seems that dead, retired, junked vehicles, cars, trucks, buses, tractors, combines, backhoes, and balers and such, just get parked in a line against the back fence by the furtherest neighbor.
Only looks good in winter when covered with snow. Otherwise, a linear junkyard.
I’m from the South, where most people use an actual junkyard. With a fence around it. And junkyard dogs.
Why not just do what China does with their new electric cars?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8&feature=sharea
“Most Salvage Yards will NOT take EVs.”
Why get rid of an EV? Their purpose is to sit in your garage and be shown to people the next time you have a social event (while you’re holding your nose up, of course).
So, even if you wreck your EV, most likely you can get it looking decent enough for the garage at a body shop, so you’ll still get your money’s worth, even if you never drive it again. Plus you won’t have to plug it in every night in the middle of snowstorms (at times).
I don’t know about the car shells but the only place I have heard of that recycles the EV batteries is a company in Oklahoma.
A lot of used cars get sold on the used market to be resold out of the country. No way in hell are EV’s going to be sold to 3rd world countries. No support systems.
Now salvage yards won’t take them and I have read that car dealers won’t take them in for trades.
So, if a person buys an EV, they are stuck with an albatross.
Correct. I won’t. Fire risk from damaged ones. Cost to dispose of junk battery packs.
Buyers are starting to buy good or bad packs but they are not reliable. I recently managed to unload 6000 pounds of old nickel metal hydride batteries from mid 2000s civics and what not.
I was happy to see them go. Someone paid 50 cents a pound for them.
On a side note, this inability to find a use for garbage has been plaguing the recycling industry for years. We can't find a use for old plastic and newspaper now, so having unusable EV's stacked up next to windmill arms should not be a big surprise.
Related...
EV batteries lack repairability leading some insurers to junk whole cars after even minor collisions
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/ev-batteries-lack-repairability-leading-insurers-junk-whole-cars-minor-collisions
“We’re buying electric cars for sustainability reasons,” Avery said, Reuters reported. “But an EV isn’t very sustainable if you’ve got to throw the battery away after a minor collision.”
These cars also pile up in scrapyards, usually with low mileage, exacerbating the problem.
I decided to go ogle the words, “junk yards that accept electric vehicles,” but I was unable to get a listing for any junkyard.
I did find this interesting Washington Post news article about the problem of EVs in junk yards. Now I can understand why they would be hesitant to have them in their yards.
A Tesla was in a junkyard for three weeks. Then it burst into flames.
(pay wall)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/22/tesla-fire-sacramento/
Archived version anyone can read.
https://archive.is/HYFF0#selection-379.0-379.69
