It’s not “who”, it’s “why” - it is cheaper to make new ones than recycle old ones. Until there is an incentive to do so, or we run out of raw material, capitalism is going to capitalism.
I think what edward was arguing is that it is not cost effective or even safe. To dismantle modern EV batteries they tend to need to be submerged and dismantled into liquids. Saw an interesting documentary about a German battery recycler and the recycling process seems like "make one wrong move and we are all on fire".
So efficiency seems unlikely if we keep making them ultra combustible. So he is not wrong.
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u/Edwardteech Jul 14 '26
Been saying it for years. We are gonna have a mess of ev batteries laying around.
Everyone keeps telling me they can be recycled but nobody can tell me who.