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Are EV Batteries Recyclable?
Instead of trashing the batteries, auto recyclers (the businesses formerly known as junkyards) send them to specialist firms that dismantle the packs and break them down into their different materials: wires, circuitry, plastics, the actual cells. The cells and circuits are crushed to separate and purify the various metals in them, including nickel and lithium.

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. EVs are much better for the climate than gas-powered cars.
It's not even close. Over its lifetime, the average new electric vehicle produces about half the greenhouse gas emissions of an equivalent vehicle burning gasoline or diesel. This calculation from the Union of Concerned Scientists compares total emissions from gas and electric vehicles:

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