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The shocking naked truth of batteries

Bruce Haedrich
USA
2021
Dismantling used car batteries is complicated, hazardous, and expensive, not at as simple as recycling a gas tank from a gasoline powered car.

What is a battery? Tesla said it best when they called batteries Energy Storage Systems. That’s important. We do not make electricity – we store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered.