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?? <br><br>
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. <br>
<br>Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Gil Dawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gil@gil.dawson.name">Gil@gil.dawson.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mar 15, 2009, at 7:27 A, Steve Ross wrote:<br>
> Isn't [lithium] considered 'heavy metal'... ?<br>
<br>
Whatever its toxicity may be, Lithium is the lightest of all metals<br>
(unless you consider Hydrogen to be a metal) with an atomic weight of<br>
about 7 and a density of about half a gram per cc, lighter than water.<br>
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