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Japan finds a way to recover 90% of lithium from old EV batteries (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The batteries don't last forever, eventually, they need to be dealt with somehow.

[โ€“] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Also grid storage doesn't have the sort of deep, rapid discharge/charge cycles that EVs go through. Once an EV battery is no good in the car, it still has about 80% of it's useable capacity left. Meaning, there will always be a need for "new" EV batteries, but grid storage would saturate and leave surplus batteries. Not to mention, as the grid storage batteries fall out of their useful life for that purpose, they can be recycled into new EV batteries and begin the cycle anew.