Grubarura.
Bing, you are an idiot just parroting crap stored in your digital cloud or AI brain.
"the first baby steps are being done"
Read this as: As yet we don't have a clue!
Sounds like a politicians answer if ever I heard one.
Some of the methods that are used to recycle electric car batteries are pyrometallurgy, which involves burning the batteries at high temperatures, and hydrometallurgy, which involves dissolving the batteries in chemicals1.
Both methods have advantages and disadvantages, such as the recovery rate, the environmental impact, and the cost12.
Read this as: Too bloody expensive and the energy needed way offsets and savings.
The bit about burning the batteries at high temps gives me a bit of a chuckle.
What would they use - how about natural gas?
And all those talking about trucks being electric soon.
Yeah sure - define soon!
The bloody batteries would be so heavy that the trucks would be overloaded before they left the depot, where they had been charging for hours. Most of the charge would be used up just dragging the truck itself across the Nullabour.
Regeneration does not work on flat roads where there are no down hill runs and with little braking except for the odd camel or skippy.
And don't tell me about changing batteries every 200k, how ridiculous!
Time is money!
Why not just truck all the old batteries, in lectric trucks of course, out near Birdsville and build a mountain out of them to rival that other big rock a bit further west.
All those batteries in a pile should sure attract some spectacular lightning displays.
Mt Lithium of the West. It would have the Grey Nomads flocking out there in their motor homes all towing little Suzuki 4x4's that have been converted to lectricity of course.
Wake up, the socialists have conned you.
ICG has been conned enough times already.
Lockitt
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