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Apologies but crap at posting links but a quick google will highlight the issues. Wikipedia also has a page covering this. Basically very nasty chemicals, requires lots of water/solvent which if it gets in the water table will cause major problems. it also appears that the recycling take up is...

You are missing the point. I know they can be recycled it’s the effort required and the environmental costs associated with the by-products of this process. Batteries are chemically very nasty. The internal combustion engine has had its day, but ignoring the above is asking for trouble. You get...

I think you are missing the point. To recycle anything there is a level of effort required in terms of energy and materials, which is where my concern lies. We are at the very beginning of the EV lifecycle and so any issues with this has yet to be identified. it’s the how that concerns me. The...

Agreed. Almost everything can be recycled, however there is an environmental cost when you recycle and that’s what needs more understanding.

How many diesel cars are there? How many EV’s. I don’t have an issue with EV’s as they are a way better alternative than diesels. My issues are one of safety regards battery fires, secondly I’m still not conviced that we have a handle on the true environmental cost of recycling cells and the...

because the fire risk associated with EV’s is a very large elephant in the room and needs to be addressed and not ignored. BTW, not and never have been a fan of diesels.

How long have diesel's been going and how many incidents like this have we seen? the potential energy in a rechargeable battery sell is immense, and I mean immense, lithium in particular. It’s basically a fire bomb in the making. I worked on charging systems when lithium ion cells first came out...