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ben_w
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Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
I’m not a chemist — would it be harder to get it from recycling old batteries than getting it from rocks?
Because even the battery market is saturated, recycling is the only source you’ll need.
salty_biscuits
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There is a lot of lithium about, just not a lot of stuff that is easy to get at. The cost of lithium isn't a huge part of battery cost at the moment anyway (10s of dollars per kilo with about 50kg in an ev battery).
ben_w
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About 1kg/kWh?
the8472
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more succinctly: petroleum is a consumable needed for operation, lithium is a manufacturing input
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Because even the battery market is saturated, recycling is the only source you’ll need.