This is more important than quality issues; the fact that they're gettibg fixed. People forget that these are largely still quasi-prototypes that are being fine tuned by a young company.
And yes, obviously you would recycle the batteries, the same way you do with every other battery. Throwing a battery in the dump is like pouring gasoline into a storm drain; if you do that, you're the asshole, not tesla.
Depleted Tesla batteries sell for $5000, I believe is the number I've heard. The minerals are very valuable and are used to create new lithium batteries.
This is more important than quality issues; the fact that they're gettibg fixed. People forget that these are largely still quasi-prototypes that are being fine tuned by a young company.
And yes, obviously you would recycle the batteries, the same way you do with every other battery. Throwing a battery in the dump is like pouring gasoline into a storm drain; if you do that, you're the asshole, not tesla.
Depleted Tesla batteries sell for $5000, I believe is the number I've heard. The minerals are very valuable and are used to create new lithium batteries.