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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by cowmix on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:07PM (#14843179)
Batteries are almost 100% recyclable. Also, with the Volt at least, zero failures of the battery systems:

http://insideevs.com/zero-first-generation-chevrolet-volt-ba...

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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by greglindahl on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:35PM (#14844374)
This isn't true, in the sense that recovering lithium from batteries is more expensive than mining new. The main reason for that is that lithium mining is extremely energy efficient and hence cheap.
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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by cowmix on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:39PM (#14844671)
The lithium is a small percentage of the battery by weight.
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Re:A Brighter Future for Electric Cars and the Planet by greglindahl on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:56PM (#14844759)
Yes.
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