Where do HV batteries go when they die?

IIRC the dealer returns the battery to Toyota and earns a fairly handsome fee.
Toyota has a recycling program, although I cannot remember specifics.

Toyota recycles as part of its environmental charter, but in the case of the battery they would anyway. Nickel is worth good money. And of course they get to analyze any failed battery they want to for ongoing battery research.

I love Toyota. They are a smart, smart company, and excellent stewards in what is overall a dirty industry.

 

Does your company replace HV batteries ?
What do YOU do with the old ones ??

 

There are local and national companies that can accept this type of material.

Much like lead acid batteries, if you have large amounts to get rid of, sometimes you have to pay to get rid of them. Depends on your market.

 

If I kept every pack I ever worked on I'd never have time to experiment on all of them.

 

They recycling community says they get the batteries. This is from a 2012 article I found on Edmonds, I didn't know the thing out Lithium being so cheap as not being worth much to recycle.

"The nickel-metal hydride batteries found in hybrid vehicles are basically "zero-landfill" products. Whatever can't be recycled is consumed in the recycling process, leaving no trash behind. The primary metals recovered are nickel, copper and iron. The principal rare earths are neodymium and lanthanum.

The nickel-metal hydride batteries found in hybrid vehicles are basically "zero-landfill" products. Whatever can't be recycled is consumed in the recycling process, leaving no trash behind. The primary metals recovered are nickel, copper and iron. The principal rare earths are neodymium and lanthanum.

Lithium-ion batteries now are somewhere between 70 and 100 percent recyclable, depending on the particular chemistry of the batteries. There are about half a dozen in use and more are being developed. The bits that can't be recycled are mostly consumed as fuel in the furnaces that are used to melt down the metals, which include cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, manganese and, someday, lithium.

Recycling specialists say that as volume grows, it will become more economically feasible to recover some of the content now wasted that way. Lithium, for example, is so cheap that there's no economic case for recovering it from lithium-ion batteries right now, says Todd Coy, executive vice president of recycler Kinsbursky Brothers. The Southern California firm handles most North American advanced automotive battery recycling through a joint venture with longtime battery recycling firm Toxco."