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Originally Posted by Hehe
Batteries are highly recyclable even when they die completely. Over 90% of its materials can be refined into raw form without tons of work. The only problem now is that there's no a proper system to the entire chain.
Tesla Co-founder and current board member started a startup doing just that. They recycle batteries everywhere and turn them back into raw materials.
All the pollution produced by ICE, is almost impossible to recapture. There are ways... but highly energy-intensive and very ineffective. It's almost like a water plant trying to suck moisture in the air and turn them into water. Not impossible, but very energy intensive and you get very little.
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I'm pretty sure that's not the case as recycling them is extremely energy and labour intensive and therefore not cheap. It was cheaper to make new batteries.
What is a thing is repurposing as more and more Tesla batteries are being repurposed into battery walls or even storage stations at local power stations. But the way the batteries are basically vacuum packed into neat little packages make it very hard to repackage them in scale. There's videos of boutique shops who bring in a Tesla pack, cut it down and put them into electrified cars. That's not a small job and it's all custom.