Norway potentially to ban petrol vehicles by 2025

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Originally Posted by Brazen

Short answer yes. Really the special ingredient lithium is quite prevalent. In terms of the battery, most are around 98% recyclable.

But you probably don't want to recycle them anyway, once they are done in a car just use them as energy storage for houses. Say your 80kwh degrades 40% over 20 years to be only 50kwh then you have a great home storage battery as most houses need around 7-15kwh batteries to be self sufficient off solar. At that point the battery will last a very long time as the charge and discharge rates are much much gentler than cars.

Compare that to petrol, every litre you burn in your car is gone forever - never to be reused. At 110kmh you are burning close to 10kilos of petrol an hour.

Lithium is the next big mineral to kick off mining in WA. There's craploads of it here.