[ausev] Battery disposal

[Jim Watson]

I've heard that Tesla battery packs are taken back to Tesla and then
recycled. But I would like to know exactly what they do with the old
materials. I have assumed that they melt down the old metals for reuse??

I would like to see your source for the alloy in batteries, just cuz I don't
know, Marc. That's good to hear that they don't use Lithium alone,... I have
heard bad news about Lithium and I just don't know who to trust. The counter
info could just be from an uninterested party.

Jim

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Gil Dawson <Gil at gil.dawson.name> wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2009, at 7:27 A, Steve Ross wrote:
> > Isn't [lithium] considered 'heavy metal'... ?
>
> Whatever its toxicity may be, Lithium is the lightest of all metals
> (unless you consider Hydrogen to be a metal) with an atomic weight of
> about 7 and a density of about half a gram per cc, lighter than water.
>
> --Gil
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