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A: They get recycled. There aren't many EV battery recycling plants now because there aren't many 15 year old EVs.
Yeah, they go to https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/ or similar. Probably grid -> Redwood. This is not yet a completely solved problem but by the time it's serious it will be solved.
If the batteries are a significant percentage of the ev's overall value, what happens to the entire goddam car when you have to replace the batteries? Some people blow them up
With Prius batteries, there’s a whole refurb scene where people buy the whole pack, crack it open, find the underperforming cells, and replace those. And that’s for a very small battery. So I would guess the same will be done for EV packs, since “most of the time” the cells will wear unevenly and the whole pack won’t be bad at once. If you do need a pack replacement after 10 years though, you probably get more power…
He carefully disassembled it, cleaned all the internal junctions, put it back together and the car worked fine afterwards.
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Yeah, they go to https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/ or similar. Probably grid -> Redwood. This is not yet a completely solved problem but by the time it's serious it will be solved.
... if solving it is more profitable than shipping the toxic waste to $poor_country.
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With Prius batteries, there’s a whole refurb scene where people buy the whole pack, crack it open, find the underperforming cells, and replace those. And that’s for a very small battery. So I would guess the same will be done for EV packs, since “most of the time” the cells will wear unevenly and the whole pack won’t be bad at once. If you do need a pack replacement after 10 years though, you probably get more power…
I doubt car manufacturers would let that happen. They will drm the batteries because safety and you will be forced to buy a new one.
1: https://electrek.co/2019/08/27/startup-electric-retrofits-te...
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I doubt car manufacturers would let that happen. They will drm the batteries because safety and you will be forced to buy a new one.
Likely true, though the forbidden refurb batteries could be reused in conversions like these[1]. I am tempted to try a conversion of some silly old car (like my high-school Opel GT) but on the downside you don't get airbags, crumple zones etc. to go with your 21st-century electric motors and batteries... 1: https://electrek.co/2019/08/27/startup-electric-retrofits-te...
A: They get recycled. There aren't many EV battery recycling plants now because there aren't many 15 year old EVs.
unless companies like tesla themselves (are probably forced to) recycle the whole shebang we're going to get nowhere fast.