David Martin

Battery Technology: A Different Set of Rules

This article appears to contain serious inaccuracies.
Reprocessing lithium batteries is indeed at an early stage, but companies such as Toxco are able to deal with them, and recycling requirements in the EU will ensure that the technology will be further developed.
The main cost of lithium batteries is not in the raw materials, but in the processing, largely due to the high temperatures needed.
Many efforts are underway to reduce these costs.
Since the basic facts are not well represented here, analysis based on it is not likely to be valuable.