Douglas Korthof

Battery Investing for Beginners

So far, the maximum Lithium of any sort has powered an EV is 50,000 miles; and there's a shelf life issue. Besides this ominous fact of current Li life, the overall point is that you CANNOT talk seriously about cost until you consider logistics and sunset. Yes, it's common sense, which is sorely lacking in the supposed march to Lihtium.


On Sep 27 06:52 PM Don Harmon wrote:

> Douglas, consider for a moment the useable life cycle of a LiFePO4
> battery pack in an automobile is 10 years. At this point the same
> battery pack still has over 75% of it's original power or energy
> density thus can be re-purposed for other markets like wind or solar
> giving it another 10 years of life (or more). Thus after 20 years
> these batteries might be ready to go to the re-cycling companies
> for reclaiming the original resources used to produce them.
>
> Don't you think that 20 years will suffice to develop the sufficient
> re-cycling technology that Lithium will require?
>
> It's only common sense when you really think about it!