EVs could be the future, solving the immense issue of burning fossil fuels and making our atmosphere cleaner. They could also lend their hand in assisting with our climate crisis.
However, they are not selling as well as anticipated, do people not care about the planet, or is it that they just don’t want to have to find a “pump”, and wait half an hour to fill it up.
Also, the batteries, as with common household batteries, they require disassembly and careful disposal. Due to the risk of thermal runaway, which is a chemical reaction leaking from within the lithium ion battery, possibly leading to burning or exploding.
“If you make it profitable to do it, people will do it. And at this point, there’s no system in place, there’s no infrastructure [for recycling electric vehicle batteries] and so it really is not obvious how profitable a business it’s going to be,” says Linda Gaines, a systems analyst at the Argonne National Laboratory.
In order to meet with customer demand the batteries need to both last longer on a run and the life of the battery must do the same.
