How about we make batteries that can be recycled as easily as ICE cars so we don’t end up with an environmental disaster before too long.
“How about we make batteries that can be recycled as easily as ICE cars so we don’t end up with an environmental disaster before too long.”
Already done there is no less than four different ways to take the materials out of old packs and either repurpose the good cells for second life or recover the elements and make new battery grade cathode and anode materials. I have 60kw of second life power banks behind the homestead those cells came out of EV packs they get cycled couple times a week or if the grid goes down they can run my place over night easy. Lithium and cobalt are now worth so much a kg no one is putting them in land fills it all comes down to what is the element worth.
Second life, and elemental recovery these are Tesla former executives.
https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/
Aqueous recovery
https://www.metso.com/portfolio/battery-black-mass-recycling-process/
https://www.aquametals.com/better-lithium-ion/
Plasma recover.
https://www.plasmacombustion.com/product-recycling_ewaste.html
Hydromet, there is at least half a dozen hydromet ways.
https://atomfair.com/battery-primer/subtheme.php?id=G58