What Happens To Old Electric Car Batteries? Can They Be Recycled?
The Problem The battery pack within electric cars are very heavy: they weigh anything from 293 kg (in the Nissan Leaf) to 540 kg (in the Tesla Model S 2015 version). So it''s not as easy as taking your old phone battery down to the nearest recycling point! And data from Bloomberg predicts that there''ll be 3,400,000 (3.4 million) electric car …