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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by rhodozelia on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:11PM (#25912451)
This is a good point, but I’m thinking a higher return will be earned with new batteries than used ones. I guess we’ll see in 10 years If there are utility scale grid storage with used batteries!
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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by ip26 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:38PM (#25922810)
If everybody wrote off the used batteries, then the price of used batteries would be practically nothing. And then somebody would say, Gee, you mean I can buy 1MWh of old Nissan Leaf batteries for $1,000...?

An application will be found, or they will be recycled, whichever has better economics.

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