Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
Doing things improperly with dangerous materials is unsafe. News at 11:00.
Misleading headline making it sounds like all battery recycling poisons people. Half assed battery recycling is half assed.
Also sodium ion or some other lead-free formulation will likely replace lead acid 12v batteries over the next few years.
The advantage lead acid has for ICE is that it can dump a lot of current all at once. The C output rate on sodium ion isn’t that high, IIRC.
There have been lithium batteries used for the purpose. The original Miata used one because standard lead acid cells caused corrosion issues in the chassis. But lithium has its own supply chain issues.
Ultimately, this goes away because ICE cars go away.
Me wondering how ICE is tracking people through their car batteries when I first read this 🤔
Well, there is still the temperature constraints of Lipo and LiFePo batteries (the latter being much better at cold and hot charging).
But the point is that lithium batteries operate under a pretty big compromise of needing heating and cooling when temps are too cold and too hot, respectively. That is where lead acid has a pretty significant advantage.
Edit: I had a 1991 miata, and I don’t recall having a lithium battery. It was rear-mounted, though.
I lol’d because growing up in cold climate. You had to put a block heater to keep your engines warm enough to start. That ran off electricity. So… You know, batteries keeping themselves warm isn’t really different.
Right this very minute I’ve got two battery tenders keeping the lead acid batteries trickle charged on some motorcycles in my garage.
None of this shit is different in any meaningful way.
I lol’d because growing up in cold climate. You had to put a block heater to keep your engines warm enough to start.
I’m from Winnipeg, I know.
None of this shit is different in any meaningful way.
It is functionally very different. We heat our blocks, but rare is the person with a battery blanket.
Teslas need warming and cooling for their batteries, and even at that, they lose huge range in super cold winters. But that isn’t the real problem, which is that recharge cycles are fewer and fewer every time you charge a cold li-ion.
That’s where capacitor-based jump-starters come in.
Imagine the damage recycling EV batteries will cause.
Not to be anti-EV, but more to be pro-transits/bike.
Look man, you need to do better. You want busses to run on diesel, or really any hydrocarbon? No that’s idiocy at this point. So we still need to recycle stuff. We already know how, but the misleading article makes it seem like we don’t, cu they tried to half ass it.
EV batteries are often still good to use as they are for other purposes. Like home power storage. Their storage amount gets low enough that they aren’t giving sufficient range anymore, but they still have plenty of life left in different applications.
There’s a million reasons to prefer bikes and public transit over cars in general. The reasons specific to EVs are usually bullshit.
For what it’s worth, it’s not anti anything to point out flaws. If anything, it’s being pro because it opens the door for a conversation; which, if both sides come at it in good faith, can lead to change.
I think that my ratio makes your point, lol. I neglected to note that we need to do better, instead of just leaving it open ended.
My understanding of the current process is that it’s quite wasteful/under development. With the state of things as they are it seems unlikely that the automakers are going to improve things over the recycling that they encouraged with lead acid. But one can hope, and lobby for change.
Yeah, I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. Everything you said is true, and respectful.
I think open-ended can be okay, so long as there are milestones we can achieve (i.e. try different things out to see what works and what doesn’t). Something as big as the environment, health/safety, and not completely alienating industries (as much as I hate to say it, we do need them and their resources to an extent), is not something that is going to be easily solved without compromise.
I expect that my last two points will not win me any popularity contests, but they cannot be ignored.
if both sides come at it in good faith
ahahahah, good one
I like it, but it’s contingent on Americans actually wanting to solve the issue instead of one upping each other.
Which is kinda what your post is doing
Yes, but there are a few of us out there who want to see good things happen for all people.
Americans are unlikely to solve anything until their society goes through some dramatic changes.
That’ll take generations, we’re so absolutely fucked in this shit hole
Gotta start somewhere, and gotta keep at it. It’s difficult at times, and there certainly are people who just want to see the world burn. But fuck them. They aren’t worth our time and energy.
people who just want to see the world burn.
It stands to reason that if set on fire, their entire world will be, in fact, burning.
Maybe less. But yeah.
Lithium and lead are drastically different elements.
This is the same shit people use to lambast vaping based of the effects of inhaling burnt plant matter.
No one is doing that. Dihydroacetone released from heated vape juice is just as carcinogenic as tobacco compounds. Huffing any chemical in high concentration is stupid.
“Just as carcinogenic” is not demonstrated by that study.
Also “inhaling any chemicals is stupid” shows their level of knowledge considering the air we breath is a chemical.
Imagine the damage recycling EV batteries will cause.
EV batteries are mostly aluminum, some lithium , carbon as graphite, small amount of cobalt and nickel. None of these are as toxic as lead, but proper lead recycling is not toxic.
Currently my understanding of lion recycling is they grind it, dump it into a slurry, and some of the metals are recovered and the rest is a toxic soup. Mostly because the recycling is very much under development.
I think that the lesson we can draw from this is that the current system of auto recycling needs more guidelines as we move forward with EVs.
pro-transits
How pluralizing an uncountable/mass noun implies pros are transiting.
The hyphen removes that option of intended meaning.
