Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Steve Cotton: If you buy a new lead-acid battery today, I’d say 80 to 90% of the lead that’s in that battery came out of old batteries, probably dating back to multiple uses. If you buy a new lithium battery today, almost none of the minerals came from a prior battery. But right now, used lead-acid batteries are a commodity.

Building 94

Building Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 94

Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Steve Cotton: If you buy a new lead-acid battery today, I’d say 80 to 90% of the lead that’s in that battery came out of old batteries, probably dating back to multiple uses. If you buy a new lithium battery today, almost none of the minerals came from a prior battery. But right now, used lead-acid batteries are a commodity.

Building 52

Building Batteries Battery Charging 52

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The company Graphex occupies a middle position in the supply chain—it buys raw graphite from mining companies, puts it through several purification and processing steps, then sells it to battery manufacturers. Solid-state, lithium-sulfur, sodium batteries—would all of these still be using graphite in the anode?

Future 112

Future Batteries Battery Li-ion 112