How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles

Re:How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like ... by mrswag on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:36PM (#12385094)

Once you factor in the environmental cost associated with production, I'm not sure it's as clear cut. Batteries are nasty.

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Re:How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like ... by hx87 on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:18PM (#12385434)

They can also be recycled almost indefinitely.

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Re:How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like ... by JoeAltmaier on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:19PM (#12385441)

I'm not aware that lithium batteries can be recycled at all?

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Re:How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like ... by hx87 on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:37PM (#12385567)

Lithium ion batteries have been recyclable for a while now-- Best Buy has receptacles for used ones. It's been slow to get off the ground because virgin production is still rather cheap.

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Re:How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like ... by JoeAltmaier on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:07PM (#12386670)

Hm. This article seems to say that no process is available yet. Perhaps they're not being 'recycled' but re-used? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214993714...

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Re:How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like ... by hx87 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @10:03AM (#12390207)

There is no process for recycling /automotive/ lithium ion batteries, but that's because their use is so recent--the first commercially available lithium ion EV (Tesla Roadster) wasn't released until 2008. However, EV batteries are essentially the same as commodity lithium ion batteries (e.g. stacks of 18650 cells that you can buy on Amazon), and those have been recycled for a while.

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