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Solving The EV Battery Recycling Puzzle
Episode 1137

Solving The EV Battery Recycling Puzzle

Short Wave · NPR

September 23, 202414m 12s

Show Notes

Electric vehicle batteries will all, eventually, reach the end of their lives. When that happens, they should be recycled. But what breakthroughs could make that happen cleanly, efficiently — and close to home? Today, business correspondent Camila Domonoske takes us on a tour of one company trying to crack the EV battery recycling puzzle — to learn what this case study can tell us about the larger battery picture. Plus, why recycling is kind of like wresting with Lego bricks.

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