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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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