Try towing a van with an EV, page-78

Dan, recycling often does not stack up economically because the value of the finished product is less than the cost of the recycling. Now have a quick look at the price of battery materials and their current trajectory. Manganese, Nickle, Copper, Cobalt, especially Lithium and even Tin, Iron, Graphite and Aluminium are well and truly on an upward trend and are not likely to slump anytime soon.

Battery recycling is still struggling at present because of lack of volume too, all they have to work on at present are a couple of older Teslas, the odd Leaf plus phone, tablet, power tool and laptop batteries. EV batteries will also be slower to enter the recycling chain because they will be reused instead as home power supplies and some entrepreneural handypersons will even dismantle and rebuild battery packs with the used but still viable cells.