Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones
Is is very cool they have the ability to recycle old battery packs, but isn't the goal to have more lithium battery capacity available overall? Many people buy used cars only. If all electric vehicle batteries will be taken off the market after let's say 10 years. This will substantially impact availability of such vehicles for those people.Let's take an imaginary model 3 that is 15 years old and it has 170k miles on the odometer. If it still works and the battery has somewhere in the region of 30%~50% capacity this is still a very usable vehicle for many people.