Fixing the EV Industry’s Dirty Battery Problem
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Published 2023-03-15
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All Comments (21)
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The video mentioned "chemicals" to melt down the batteries. My question is "What is the residue left over from the recycling process and where does that end up??"
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Looks like a PR campaign for Redwood. Btw Copper is not used as Anode, it’s a current conductor/connector in the battery. Graphite or Graphite/Silicon mix is used as Anode.
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Closed loop has been the process for the lead-acid batteries used in internal combustion cars, for decades. It was motivated to keep lead out of landfills, but it's also saved that battery industry a ton of money.
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No, every Tesla does not have a Panasonic battery in it. It is a lot of them but not all.
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13.5k miles is about an average year miles in some place
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10:00 “various chemicals” 🤨
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I see “right to repair” legislation possibly playing a big part in battery recycling! The biggest cobalt-hogs are actually mobile devices and accessories. Product design with disassembly in mind, heavily standardized battery form factors would make it easier for recycling companies to extract precious resources back from products! Heavily glued components, proprietary screws and batteries don’t just make repair and disassembly unnecessarily difficult for consumers, but also for recyclers! And it might not be a bad idea to require manufacturers of high-volume goods to publish detailed disassembly industructions or manuals that a disassembly robot can understand and utilize, lest more precious resources end up in landfills… I mean… they run on the same Gcode as a 3D-printer!
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Claiming Musk was a founder of Tesla is a bit of misconception. He bought the company and sued to label himself a founder.
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This idea is being repeated in many places. There is a recycling facility being built just blocks from my home in Canada which will supply materials to the new battery manufacturing facility down the highway which will supply batteries to the EV manufacturers in Ontario and Michigan. If only there was this kind of effort to clean up every extraction, processing and manufacturing process.
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For Battery recovery it does seem better in the US rather than crude extractions done in india or africa, though labour rates will be more
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Yeah that redwood guy and Elon weren’t founder of Tesla
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That is very outdated - Panasonic is not the only battery source for Tesla, that is long ago.
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This guy created a high end metals recycling yard.
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Wow. I expected an environmentally friendly way to "fix" their "problem", meaning not just improving the supply chain but reducing the toxic waste
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Crazy what Kumar been up to nowadays.
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JV Straubel is a co-founder of Tesla not an employee
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Wonder what happens to the toxic soup they use to separate the materials?
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I still prefer the idea of discovering and exploiting new battery technologies that are way more efficient than the current lithium/cobalt ones. Besides, recycling these metals can become very costly and energy consuming, which means being not environmentally friendly in the end.
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Don't forget Envx.
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the EV industry doesn't have a "dirty battery problem". All EV batteries get reused, then recycled. The real problem is the small batteries from phones and laptops and other gadgets, which are almost never recycled.
