Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones
by epistasis on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:01AM
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What an odd claim, I haven't heard anybody say that we will "run out" of lithium, much less at a particular date.
More likely, we will stop more lithium extraction, and get most of it from recycling old batteries. 20 years from now is probably too soon for that, but 30-40 seems like it could be possible where we can circularized the lithium economy.
(Circularization assumes that per capita needs are not every increasing, and that population levels off, which seems likely to me but definitely not certain)
More likely, we will stop more lithium extraction, and get most of it from recycling old batteries. 20 years from now is probably too soon for that, but 30-40 seems like it could be possible where we can circularized the lithium economy.
(Circularization assumes that per capita needs are not every increasing, and that population levels off, which seems likely to me but definitely not certain)