Contradictions with EV’s
It’s common knowledge that EV’s produce LESS CO2, right??…Either way, FINALLY a long overdue dose of cogent objectivity has been allowed to enter the discussion :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S...
Forum Discussion
pianotuna wrote:
So what is recycled on an ice?
Happily, the answer is yes for a Bev -- the batteries that power electric cars can be recycled.
Source: https://auto.howstuffworks.com/can-electric-car-batteries-be-recycled.htm
Ahem, that bit of info is from 2011....about a decade ago.
Here is something published about a year ago---
And remember, we don't know...what we don't know.
...With the development of electric vehicles involving lithium ion batteries as energy storage devices, the demand for lithium ion batteries in the whole industry is increasing, which is bound to lead to a large number of lithium ion batteries in the problem of waste, recycling and reuse. If not handled properly, it will certainly have a negative impact on the environment and resources....
The Methods of Recovering Lithium Ion Batteries
Recycling for LIBs usually involves both physical and chemical processes (Harper et al., 2019). Due to the complex assembly process of LIBs and the wide variety of electrodes, it brings great danger for the recovery of battery. The explosion, combustion and poisonous gas brought on the recovery process are easy to cause casualties. To reduce this risk, spent LIBs usually need to be discharged before recycled. Physical processes usually include pretreatment and direct recovery of electrode materials. These processes usually include disassembly, crushing, screening, magnetic separation, washing, heating treatment, etc. Chemical processes can be divided into pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes, which usually involve leaching, separation, extraction and chemical/electrochemical precipitation.
BTW, the pyrometallurgical process requires furnace temps excess of 700 degrees Celsius (about 1300 degrees Fahrenheit)...which will require the input of fossil fuels.
Can we agree on this point....BEV battery recycling industry is still in it's infancy (we don't know what we don't know) and the current process is environmentally dirty.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.578044/full
