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18. Plus since lithium is recyclable in time it will be cheaper ...

Reply to daleo (Reply #17)

Sun Aug 30, 2015, 10:14 AM

Aug 2015

to recycle existing lithium batteries rather than mine increasingly expensive virgin lithium. Today while most lithium ion batteries are recycled for the expensive metals the lithium is not recycled because honestly it is pretty cheap and there isn't that much lithium in a lithium ion battery. However if demand drives up the price of lithium it will be more economical to use recycled lithium instead.

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500k electric cars by 2020. [View all] lonestarnot Aug 2015 OP

Very good. PatrickforO Aug 2015 #1

The need to step it up this quickly. lonestarnot Aug 2015 #2

Hmm... MineralMan Aug 2015 #3

And the coal to make the electric power. nt Logical Aug 2015 #5

Or oil or nuclear power or whatever. MineralMan Aug 2015 #6

When there is all that solar energy just waiting to be harnessed. lonestarnot Aug 2015 #9

And wind! nt Logical Aug 2015 #10

And wind, of course. But, those big props kill birds, and are MineralMan Aug 2015 #13

Good questions. Another issue charging stations "multiplying like electric bunnies." lonestarnot Aug 2015 #7

Well, since most of these cars are novelties to be owned MineralMan Aug 2015 #12

Lithium Ion Batteries are recyclable Statistical Aug 2015 #15

Plus the fact that every single lithium battery will fail nationalize the fed Aug 2015 #16

Gasoline gets "mined" and shipped tremendous distances too daleo Aug 2015 #17

Plus since lithium is recyclable in time it will be cheaper ... Statistical Aug 2015 #18

Why, yes, it does. MineralMan Aug 2015 #19

And some of them will be self driving Logical Aug 2015 #4

True. Humans not required, except to build them and to manufacture MineralMan Aug 2015 #8

Self driving cars will save thousands of people a year! Good news! nt Logical Aug 2015 #11

See there? There's always an answer, isn't there? MineralMan Aug 2015 #14