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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by Sakos on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:04AM (#33393343)
This is one of those cases where I think it's weird when people are so focused on cost. The environmental cost is extremely high to mine lithium and externalities aren't priced in to the price of lithium. We should be doing everything we can to reuse the lithium we've already mined.
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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by manfre on Sunday October 30, 2022 @08:12AM (#33393736)
I'm happy for you that cost is not something you need to focus on. For many people, they don't have as much savings or an income that is high enough for them to not focus on cost.
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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by Sakos on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:39PM (#33396657)
Yeah, that's not what I was talking about. Are you even in the same conversation? Or do individual people build recycling plants for lithium now?
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