What happens to used electric car batteries?

Re:What happens to used electric car batteries? by jaclaz on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:42AM (#29130571)

And - again - this has nothing to do with the question I asked/the issue I was talking about, which is not what happens to batteries, it is about who does the whatever is (considered lawful) supposed to be done with them and how much it will cost me, it remains a VERY practical question.

Who (names of the companies) today (not tomorrow, not in ten years time) will pick up my wrecked electric car (and its batteries)?

For an old, traditional, ICE car I open the local phone directory and can find a handful of car wreckers that are authorized to scrap the car.

What do I do if the car is an electric one?

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Re:What happens to used electric car batteries? by cogman10 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @11:08AM (#29130839)

Any ICE salvage company will salvage an EV. Why do you think they won't?

So, pull up the phone directory and call any one of those wreckers, ask them if they handle EVs. All of them will say yes.

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Re:What happens to used electric car batteries? by jaclaz on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:33PM (#29131625)

Maybe this happens in the US.

Here (Italy, but I believe that several EU countries are in this same situation) they won't touch an electric vehicle with a ten foot pole.

They are not authorized to handle or store lithium batteries (that are considered dangerous wastes) and don't have the (safety) qualifications nor tools to handle mid-range voltages.

There are in the making some new EU norms (and investments) related to "circular economy" for the EV batteries:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_...

but right now they are e-waste, the so-called RAEE/WEEE, and while there is a code 160005 (that is for batteries coming from phones, notebooks, etc.) EV batteries are likely to fall in the 160215 code (which is dangerous parts removed from assemblies).

We are talking (if you can find anyone that will dismantle them) of roughly 4/5 Euro/kg for the disposal fees.

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