This Is What No One Tells You About Used Electric Car Batteries

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By Ayush Arya

Published 6 days ago

Do all end-of-life electric vehicle batteries end up in landfills? Here's how used EV batteries are recycled in the U.S.

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End-of-life electric vehicle batteries are carefully collected and recycled, rather than ending up in landfills, thanks to strong environmental safeguards in the US.
The recycling process involves shredding the batteries and separating the materials into plastics, aluminum, cobalt, lithium, etc. for manufacturing new battery packs.
The "black mass" extracted from the recycling process, which contains lithium, cobalt, and nickel, is essential for manufacturing new batteries and is considered the "new gold."

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