Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling
Cash 4 Cars Cleveland is a buyer of scrap cars, junk cars and wrecked vehicles. As more vehicles of the electric and hybrid-electric variety begin to enter the scrap car market, we have investigated how the batteries used will be disposed of.
Electric and Hybrid-Electric vehicles are viewed as environmentally friendly. What happens to the batteries used in electric cars when these cars are wrecked, junked or otherwise reach the end of the road? According to a Consumer Reports article in October 2013: Mr. John Holmes, with the San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE), discussed hybrid batteries. Holmes’ research of electric vehicle batteries indicates “that even when a car battery has only 70 percent of capacity remaining—too little to serve in a car—it is possible to receive about 10 years of useful life left as storage devices on the grid.”
Apparently components in lithium-ion batteries, such as nickel and cobalt, make these much too valuable to send to the landfill. The lithium-ion batteries used in the majority of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars and the nickel-metal hydride type utilized in hybrids are not considered toxic. In contrast to 12-volt lead-acid car batteries, are safe for landfill disposal.
When a junk car is sold to a scrap car buyer, what are the environmental concerns? They are apparently not much different then selling a junk car to a scrap yard or other “cash for cars” company.
The market for used electric vehicle batteries is minimal, due to a low rate of failure. The replacement cost for these continues to fall. The older electric vehicle batteries were $2000 or more to replace, but it appears that $500 will be the approximate cost in the near future.
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