▲ | ianferrel 2 days ago | |
Probably, but EV batteries are large enough that there might be an industrial recycling process for them, while old laptop batteries are basically free because it's too much labor to extract useful value from them. | ||
▲ | edaemon 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
I'm pretty sure most industrial recycling methods for lithium batteries involve grinding them up, so pack size isn't as much a factor as sheer volume. I think there just wasn't much juice for the squeeze until demand from EVs made recycling worthwhile. Here's a video inside a recycling plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xrarUWVRQ |