Batteries are the environmental Achilles heel of electric vehicles – unless we repair, reuse and recycle them
- Written by: Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
ShutterstockElectric vehicle advocates say the cars ultimately have a smaller carbon footprint than their fossil-fuelled counterparts and could resolve our energy concerns for good. Well, fair enough, but questions arise when we dig into the inner layers of electrical vehicles and see how sustainable their components are. In fact, the batteries...
