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Awaits? There are battery recycling plants running profitably right now that recover 95% of lithium.


Those companies will usually explain that those are pilot plants. They don’t have enough volume to really scale to economical production, yet. They’ll need for a lot more EVs to be on the road long enough for batteries to be damaged or fail and need to be recycled. Until recently, the number of new EVs was very low, just single digit percentage of car sales. Now that they are getting into double digits, the potential supply of batteries is starting to grow. It will just take time, now.




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