Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Aimee Boulanger
Climate One
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The Future of Battery Recycling
Redwood materials recently announced that after a year long pilot program, it was able to recover important metals from used batteries at a rate of more than 95 percent. So how does this work? In 2011 I bought a Nissan Leaf, very early EV with a range of kind of around 100 miles. It went down 2016 or so, time to actually gave it away to a public radio station because I didn't know what to do with it. The batteries today might be economically 95 percent but technically they're 99 or more percent reusable.
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