Comment on The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No doubt batteries are getting better all the time. But they’re still hard to recycle, and and lithium mining isn’t exactly environmentally friendly itself. I’m still hoping for either a different electrolyte or some new design method that makes them easier to disassemble and recycle. I’ll be looking for a new car in probably 5 years, I really hope I’ll feel good about EV’s by then.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Modern recycling plants can recover 95% of the lithium from a li ion battery pack.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s damn impressive, I wasn’t aware of that. Thank you for sharing!
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The last I had heard was that it was a time consuming, very manual process. That the cells of the batteries had to be removed, opened, and unrolled all by hand. I don’t see in the article anywhere that mentions the ease of disassembly, or if any of it can be automated. The 95% recovery is great, for sure. I wonder how scalable the project is though if it isn’t automated.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
They shred the entire battery pack in that factory.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Beautiful. That’s exactly what I wanted to see. Thank you. That’s a very cool video.