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Originally Posted by Fuzz
If you have ever wondered how lithium batteries are recycled, here's a good video of the process. One interesting bit is they say they can process up to 18,000 tons a year. That's about 25,000 car batteries. Tesla is selling roughly 1.5 million a year alone, so we are going to need a lot more scale on these in the future.
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The trouble with scaling now of course, is that it'll be 10-15 years before these batteries are available for recycling, so the supply of material isn't going to match the capacity of your start scaling too quickly. On that though, lots of announcements these days about recycling:
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/09/04...o-jb-straubel/