Comment by sebstefan
3 days ago
There's a lot of noise around EVs between range anxiety, recycling, catching fire etc. Is this riding on non-existent problems or is it solving an actual real problem which I've been lucky to avoid so far?
I don't do e-bikes but I've had E-vespas and e-scooters and replacing a cell isn't really something I've had in mind. I've had lots of failures, none of them were from the battery. They all died too, before the battery.
The next step of the lifecycle is recycling, and that's done by professionals who do have arc welders, so they don't require such convenience
We're going to produce larger batteries for vespas, golf carts and scooters too!
Our repairable battery is actually quite convenient even for recyclers: many studies have shown that if you can get pristine cells, without all the casing / electronics / plastic parts as you're recycling the cells, you get back a much more pure recycled lithium at the end of the process!
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