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I noticed you forgot to name the "non-Tesla" sources.....Did you hit the reply button too soon????


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What Does Tesla Do With Old Batteries?

Thanks for the link which you post to support your contention that Tesla does not recycle 60% of their lithium batteries as a poster wrote. I read the link. Every single story on that website is an anti-Tesla story.
And even given that bias, the article says:

Tesla says that it recycles 60 percent of the components from its lithium-ion batteries once they’ve reached end of life.

Then further in the story, which is filled with links appears this sentence:

Unfortunately, the majority of dead lithium-ion batteries end up in a landfill or get stored for long periods of time.

There is no link, no reference and no evidence presented, just a sentence.
Elsewhere in the article is a link to a story on Medium. Click HERE to go to that story.

In that story it is reported that 60% of Tesla batteries are recycled and additionally 10% are re-used in other applications so that means 70% of the batteries do not go into waste.

The gist of all this is that lithium batteries in Teslas are aggressively being handled in a green manner, but also a cost reducing manner. Ultimately if recycling didn't make dollar sense it wouldn't be happening. If you want to hate on Musk, go ahead. If you want to hate on lithium carts, go ahead. But to attack lithium carts because their batteries cannot be recycled and something something Tesla, is not accurate, as proven by the link you provided.