IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 California faces a growing surplus of retired electric vehicle batteries, necessitating strategic management. 🌱 A “second-use first” approach offers significant carbon savings by repurposing batteries for energy storage before recycling. 🔄 Developing a robust recycling infrastructure is critical to handle the oversupply and recover valuable materials like lithium and cobalt. 🌍 … Continue reading “This Is the Carbon Bomb We Can Defuse” Using Retired EV Batteries Cuts More Emissions Than Recycling Every Year