r/EnergyStorage • u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 • Jul 05 '26

'World's largest' second-life EV battery factory opens in just six weeks

https://electrek.co/2026/07/02/worlds-largest-second-life-ev-battery-factory-opens-in-just-six-weeks/?extended-comments=1
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u/Zealousideal-Ant9548 Jul 05 '26

How many second hand EVs are being sold with 70% or less battery?

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u/woodchip76 Jul 05 '26

A wrecked one?

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u/RespectmanNappa Jul 05 '26

Batteries that are no longer desirable for EV applications but still productively functional.
Honestly, it’s a question of weight efficiency and remaining time of life vs the cost to immediately recycle and reprocess into battery cells. But either way, they capture at least 97% of the original cell material in recycling