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What will happen to all the dead electric car batteries?

Emma Woollacott
UK
2021
bbc.com BBC
Grave yard for thousands of government mandated Electric Vehicles and their batteries near Paris, France. What an environmental disgrace.

The world will have to work out what to do with millions of disused car batteries. By 2030, the EU hopes that there will be 30 million electric cars on European roads.

While most EV components are much the same as those of conventional cars, the big difference is the battery. While traditional lead-acid batteries are widely recycled, the same can't be said for the lithium-ion versions used in electric cars.