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Who Knew? A Car Battery Is the World's Most Recycled Product
The same issue exists for all of the lead-acid batteries from gas cars. Recycling of lead-acid batteries is a well developed process. Close to 100% of a lead-acid battery is recycled. I think it is safe to assume that the infrastructure to recycle the lithium-ion batteries in EVs (and subsequent other battery technologies) will scale up as sales scale up.
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Originally Posted by MSchad
Saw a question posed the other day: As electric vehicle sales/use increases, how are all those batteries safely disposed of when they all start going bad?
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