Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research Suggests

Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by omegaworks on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @06:30PM (#14449084)

Disposal costs will likely be higher for electric cars. Huge battery packs with lots of lead-acid and/or lithium inside.

Seems like a good externalized cost to target.

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by pi-rat on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @07:02PM (#14449277)

Cells from EVs will likely be downcycled for use as stationary storage (think Tesla's Powerwall and similar). Often only a couple of cells go bad in a pack, so they are easy to repurpose. In Norway some of the larger charging sites have huge stationary batteries as buffers (evens out spikes and act as phase balancing).

You can recycle 100% of the lithium in a li-ion battery, but atm it's more costly to recycle than just mine the stuff - hopefully this will change in the near future.

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by _pmf_ on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:57AM (#14451364)

> Cells from EVs will likely be downcycled for use as stationary storage (think Tesla's Powerwall and similar).

Highly unlikely due to liability reasons. Remember the Galaxy 8? QC for batteries is demanding; QC for refurbished batteries is impossible.

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by abraae on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @06:33PM (#14449102)

Lead-acid batteries are the poster boys of recycling.

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by douche on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @07:08PM (#14449305)

True. Almost every bullet that is produced today is made from recycled car batteries.

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