Well, the video I linked was intended to show that the tech to recycle batteries exists, and it’s a developing market. The recycled raw materials were literally shown in the video, ready to be used in other products and batteries.
Battery recycling is not just an EV issue, it’s an ‘everything with a battery in it issue’. An EV battery is around 6-10k smartphones, global manufacture of smartphones is around 1.3Bn units per annum… Then there’s laptops, tablets, disposable and recyclable AAs etc, car 12v batteries, industrial batteries and so on. At one point it was cheaper to dig up more bauxite to make new aluminium cans than it was to recycle, but that has changed with demand and scaling, and so it will with batteries.
ICE passenger vehicles are long term dead simply because fossil fuels are dead, if even oil producing countries agree we need to ‘transition away from dependency on oil’ then the direction seems pretty clear, the world is slowly but surely starting to wake up.
https://unfccc.int/news/cop28-agreem...ossil-fuel-era
Does oil have a future? Of course, modern life depends on it for all sorts of things, it’s far too valuable to burn in a passenger car.
There are arguments against any change starting with 'but China', but they’re also changing and getting a head start in the renewables revolution. ‘But synthetic fuels’ is another argument to kick the can down the road, but it’s all just an admission that the tide has turned and we should instead somehow focus on becoming Cuba.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when practically the entire world is run by old men…