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Re:What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries? by Thorentis on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:28AM (#27233158)
Also what happens to the millions of petrol cars? They won't just disappear, and won't be usable for many spare parts.
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Re:What happens to all the dead electric-car batteries? by carapace on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:50PM (#27237431)
They are relatively easy to recycle, and valuable enough that "metal theft" is a thing. Remember all the rusted-out cars that folks had in their yards? They're mostly gone now.

See "Junkyard Planet; Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade" by Adam Minter, fascinating book IMO.

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