What Do You Do With Old Electric Car Batteries. Used car batteries can live on in their complete state as power storage for homes and industry. So drivers get a new battery or a new car.
They may become less capable of dealing with the fast charge and discharge rates needed for accelerating a 1 to 2 tonne mass or accepting a high rate of charge. China is the worlds largest electric car market accounting for 12 million - 56 of all electric vehicles sold in 2018. Rather after seeing eight to 10 years service in a car they can retire to a more gentle life in energy storage systems.
For decades the few electric vehicles that were on the road were powered by lead-acid batteries.
Renault is recycling all its electric car batteries though that is only about 200 a year currently. Roads by 2015 another challenge awaits on the other side of the finish line. Some of these electronics can be reused but metals and wiring are usually sent to. With fossil fuels you can have classification in terms of the number of cylinders position of mounting whether front mid-engine or rear or even the placement of the engine to be longitudinal or transverse among many others.
