19 April

In Nevada, JB Straubel, one of the founders of Tesla, has now set up a new business to recycle lithium-ion batteries. About 95% of a Li-ion battery can be recycled, meaning for every 100 EV batteries for example they process, another 95 EVs can be made. It's very profitable. Right now it can recycle more than 250,000 EV batteries alone, in a year. For comparison, how much of the energy store in a petrol or diesel can you re-use? Zero. 80% of it isn't even used to run the vehicle, it goes straight out the exhaust. There will come a time very soon when people will understand what absolute rubbish petrols and diesels are, and always have been. All they have left is the noise, for people who have a fetish for car farts.