Summary
- End-of-life electric vehicle batteries are carefully collected and recycled, rather than ending up in landfills, thanks to strong environmental safeguards in the US.
- The recycling process involves shredding the batteries and separating the materials into plastics, aluminum, cobalt, lithium, etc. for manufacturing new battery packs.
- The "black mass" extracted from the recycling process, which contains lithium, cobalt, and nickel, is essential for manufacturing new batteries and is considered the "new gold."