For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they’re worth. That creates all kinds of problems, which a new Colorado law aims to solve.

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    5 days ago

    On top of the relatively easy mining, there’s the relatively low volume of batteries to recycle. If you can’t keep a plant running all day you have a capital cost you can’t reduce as fast. That will also be less of a problem in the future.