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Good to hear! I was just reading about Li Ion batteries, including the supply of Lithium and the ability to recycle. 66% of the world's Lithium is in South America, with most in the ABC sector (Argentina, Brazil and Chile). These countries are ramping up production, especially Argentina.
Info on recycling --->
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywis...ent-recycling-process-for-lithiumion-cathodes
Lithium batteries have anodes made of graphite and cathodes made of lithium metal oxides, where the metal is some combination of cobalt, nickel, manganese, and iron. Less than five percent of old lithium batteries are recycled today. As millions of large EV batteries retire in the next decade, we’re going to send even bigger mountains of flammable, toxic battery waste to landfills. Plus, that waste contains valuable metals. There is serious concern that supplies of critical metals like cobalt and lithium are dwindling. Recycling is going to be key if we’re to keep up with battery demand.
Recycling is ridiculously easy if the industry does it the way industries have done it for decades:
If the industry isn't willing to do it, the problem is on them because they're going to have competition from emerging technologies like graphene and others. It is very easy to motivate recyclers to establish pickup paths for Li-Ion batteries the same way dairies and soda companies did ages ago.
I've been using Li-Ion batteries since 1995.
PS: Large EV batteries will NEVER EVER wind up in landfills. Stop and think about that for a moment.
Are you sure the author even takes their own statement seriously? I'd question the author's sanity seriously if they actually believe that large EV car batteries will wind up in landfills.