In case you wonder

There are a few of these companies operating now including Redwood industries, Li cycle and Tesla itself although tesla only recycled it’s own batteries and the sells the raw materials exclusively to Panasonic which makes them into more tesla batteries.

Lii-cycle is a Canadian company which operates primarily in Europe as well as an operation in Arizona and I think Kingston Canada. They are building additional North American plants though.

Redwood industries is their competitor which was started by an ex tesla exec.

The biggest challenge is getting batteries as vehicle batteries are lasting 4 and 5 times longer than they expected. Teslas new LFP car batteries are considered million mile batteries. And they have zero cobalt.

Interesting times.

Excellent! Unfortunately around here, they still go to land fills if you use the recommended local resources/methods. I'll have to look into this more!

Wonder if there is any profit in a recycler in MD shipping old Prius batteries to Arizona? I doubt it.

Much better than would have been expected. Curious as to the percentage of used batteries that are going there.

I had no idea that this was being done. Thanks for sharing.

Aww man. The anti EV crowd and landfill conspiracy theorist are going to hate you. :B