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Lithium is reusable like aluminum. Even if we stayed lithium batteries forever it’s fine since we wouldn’t have to mine much anymore. Most aluminum is recycled.
Assuming we keep using lithium for cars batteries, the day 90%+ of all new car batteries are recycled lithium will be a pretty cool moment. Decades away though.
They are literally already recycling EV batteries.
I know. To have 90% of new vehicles use recycled lithium requires 10s of millions of cars being old enough to be recycled to cover the 10s of millions of new cars being built that year.
Also many EV batteries will go to a 2nd life like stationary storage for longer before finally being recycled.
Its decades away.
Which is fine. Demand now drops future prices to the floor because the hard part is already done and there’s literally zero reason to do it again.