{"id":141081,"date":"2022-06-25T02:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/whats-going-to-happen-to-the-millions-of-electric-car-batteries-after-their-lifespans-end"},"modified":"2022-06-25T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T07:22:41","slug":"whats-going-to-happen-to-the-millions-of-electric-car-batteries-after-their-lifespans-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/whats-going-to-happen-to-the-millions-of-electric-car-batteries-after-their-lifespans-end","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Going To Happen To The Millions Of Electric Car Batteries After Their Lifespans End?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While electric vehicles promise a green future, the batteries that power them don\u2019t boast the same level of sustainability.<\/p>\n

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While driving electric vehicles is a step towards a greener future, the car batteries<\/a> that power them are not as sustainable. Though the battery is at the heart of any EV, most are made from lithium-ion and have a limited lifespan that starts to degrade from the first time you charge them. So what happens when they reach capacity?<\/p>\n

The cycle of charging and discharging causes them lose energy and power. The more charge cycles a battery goes through, the faster it will degrade. Once batteries reach 70 or 80% of their capacity, which happens around either 5 to 8 years or after 100,000 miles of driving, they have to be replaced, according to Science Direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Due to electric vehicles\u2019 rising popularity, it goes without saying that their battery waste will become a major issue. Experts estimate that 12 million tons of batteries will be thrown away by 2030, The Guardian<\/a> reported. The conundrum that manufacturers and consumers have is that although they can be recycled, there are not enough facilities to handle them. To date, there are only four lithium-ion recycling centers in the United States (via WCNC<\/a>). However, this number must grow exponentially<\/a> in the next few years as Industry experts predict there will be 85 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030 (via Science Direct).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While electric vehicles promise a green future, the batteries that power them don\u2019t boast the same level of sustainability. While driving electric vehicles is a step towards a greener future, the car batteries that power them are not as sustainable. Though the battery is at the heart of any EV, most are made from lithium-ion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141081","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}