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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

Charged EVs

The company is building a new plant in Nevada, and aims to be processing 10,000 tons of black mass (equivalent to about 150,000 EV battery packs) annually by 2025. 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.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

The company is building a new plant in Nevada, and aims to be processing 10,000 tons of black mass (equivalent to about 150,000 EV battery packs) annually by 2025. 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.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Yeah, go buy a 59k Tesla that can go 200 miles… then your screwed, sure go park and get a hotel and charge it for 8 hours… then go another 200 miles, great for long trips i’m sure. How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead? I would buy a Volt for $40K. — Ken Smith 4.

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