THE VIDEO SHELF · lithium battery recycling
What *Really* happens to used Electric Car Batteries? - (you might be surprised)
JerryRigEverything tours Li-Cycle to show how lithium-ion batteries from EVs, phones and tools are recycled. It walks through the process of shredding batteries and extracting materials.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as evidence that battery recycling is more advanced and practical than people assume.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- JerryRigEverything
- Topic
- lithium battery recycling
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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During a can't-sleep youtube session, I came across a video that explains how lithium-ion battery recycling works. I previously thought everything had to be disassembled, making recycling prohibitively impractical. Turns out that's not the case at all, they can literally just throw stuff in and …
Eric_WVGG on Hacker News · 2023-10
In $9.5B of key metals in overlooked electronic waste: UN> Is recycling even economical today? Very much so. I suggest watching the following video to see where we are at. [1] > Won't it become less so as new batteries become cheaper? Recycling will be the key to making batteries even cheaper. Getting already …
cogman10 on Hacker News · 2023-11
In Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
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