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- World Takes Baby Steps Towards A Lithium-Ion Recycling Infrastructure
- America are You Ready to E-Up!? Volkswagen Thinks So.
- Join us for Live WebChat Tomorrow with Bryan Wynne, President of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA)
| World Takes Baby Steps Towards A Lithium-Ion Recycling Infrastructure Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:00 AM PDT
As much as I love the coming onslaught of electric cars, they use lots of materials that currently have almost no recycling infrastructure — especially when it comes to their batteries. The numbers vary by the type of lithium-ion battery used, but on average, for every 100 miles of pure-electric range, a lithium-ion battery needs to contain about 15 pounds of lithium. Although the developed world has had robust systems in place for a long time to deal with the recycling of lead-acid batteries (in the U.S. more than 95% of battery lead gets recycled), the lithium-ion battery has a long way to go to catch up. Granted, lithium-ion batteries are not nearly as toxic as lead-acid batteries and so the urgency of developing a recycling infrastructure is virtually non-existent. In fact, lithium-ion batteries are classified by the U.S. government as non-toxic and “safe” to throw away in the regular trash. |
| America are You Ready to E-Up!? Volkswagen Thinks So. Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:30 AM PDT
Last week, Volkswagen debuted it’s E-Up! electric vehicle during the Frankfurt motor show. VW has already coined its new car “The Beetle for the 21st Century.” And now, according to VW, this city-sized electric vehicle concept will be Americanized and super-sized (okay, super-sized may be a slight exaggeration) for its American debut shortly after its launch in Europe in 2013. In an article published by autoweek.com, the board member in charge of product development at Volkswagen AC, Ulrich Hackenberg, summed up in one sentence why they are developing an electric car. “The reason we are working on an electric vehicle is the American market.” |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2009 06:31 PM PDT Tomorrow at 11:00 AM PST we’ll be co-hosting a web chat with Bryan Wynne, President of Electric Drive Transportation Association. Join us (return to this post) to ask questions directly and see the conversation develop. |
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