I agree with Marco. To my knowledge, squeezing out the rest of the life through energy storage is really the only next useful stage for these batteries. The y cannot be recycled.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 9, 2018, at 6:09 AM, Barry Oppenheim via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently took my Saturn Vue EV out of service and have 48 LiOn cells in > my garage. I am trying to find a way to *dispose/donate/sell them*. > > Does anyone know if *regular metal/battery recyclers* take them? I did try > to give them to someone but the cross country shipping logistics were a > nightmare. I live halfway between Philly and NYC. > > If I decide to keep them does anyone see any problems or *safety issues* > having them sit in a heated garage, partially to mostly discharged, for a > couple years? > > Cell details > 48 Calb 180Ah cells (they have not been charged for at least two years) > The cells were put into service in 2011 and have ~30000 miles on them. I > estimate ~500-600 partial charge/discharge cycles. > www.justanotherevconversion.blogspot.com > > Thanks, > > Barry > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180909/9e4f6e87/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
