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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by pjc50 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:31AM (#33393142)
How much of the price of the battery is the raw lithium, and how much is the cost of manufacturing? For most technological goods the prices of raw inputs are almost irrelevant; you don't see chip prices going up because of the cost of raw silicon.

(Exception: solar panels, because those have the least processing over raw silicon and are therefore more price sensitive)

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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by ben_w on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:40AM (#33393190)
With the numbers on that chart, the relative molar masses of lithium and lithium carbide, and assuming 160g metallic lithium per kWh, at current exchange rates, I got $132 per kWh.

Which is a surprise, but so is a x15 increase in a raw material cost.

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