{"id":121012,"date":"2021-03-29T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/where-electric-car-batteries-go-when-they-die"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:51:32","slug":"where-electric-car-batteries-go-when-they-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/where-electric-car-batteries-go-when-they-die","title":{"rendered":"Where Electric Car Batteries Go When They Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LABwwX960mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Global battery recycling industries are a new beginning for old energy storage.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When your kid looks at you with those big, innocent <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS879US879&sxsrf=ALeKk01L6eCWpKiooueENNcNcVCn8FLZ5g:1615447401836&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=flying+eyeball&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgkajE2qfvAhWhPH0KHbHtBfwQjJkEegQIBRAB&biw=1455&bih=717\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS879US879&sxsrf=ALeKk01L6eCWpKiooueENNcNcVCn8FLZ5g:1615447401836&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=flying+eyeball&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgkajE2qfvAhWhPH0KHbHtBfwQjJkEegQIBRAB&biw=1455&bih=717\">eyeballs<\/a> and asks, \u201cWhere do <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/news\/green-cars\/a35367888\/the-eternal-promise-of-solid-state-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/news\/green-cars\/a35367888\/the-eternal-promise-of-solid-state-batteries\/\">lithium ion<\/a> electric car batteries go when they die?\u201d Without hesitation\u2014because kids that age still believe you know everything\u2014you read them this article:<\/p>\n<p>Mighty Volkswagen\u2014the carmaker that certainly <em>looks <\/em>like it is going to lead the world in the production of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/podcast\/a35784365\/2021-volkswagen-id4-quick-spin-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/podcast\/a35784365\/2021-volkswagen-id4-quick-spin-podcast\/\">electric cars<\/a> someday\u2014now looks like it might lead the world in recycling electric car batteries, with the announcement that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/news\/green-cars\/a35380894\/vw-launches-pilot-plant-for-recycling-ev-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/news\/green-cars\/a35380894\/vw-launches-pilot-plant-for-recycling-ev-batteries\/\">it has opened its first battery recycling plant<\/a> in Salzgitter, Germany. OK, at a projected 3600 batteries recycled a year, maybe it won\u2019t lead the <em>world<\/em>, but it will certainly lead battery recycling in Lower Saxony, between Hildesheim and Braunschweig. Globally speaking, all this battery recycling stuff is still being sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global battery recycling industries are a new beginning for old energy storage. When your kid looks at you with those big, innocent eyeballs and asks, \u201cWhere do lithium ion electric car batteries go when they die?\u201d Without hesitation\u2014because kids that age still believe you know everything\u2014you read them this article: Mighty Volkswagen\u2014the carmaker that certainly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}