If This Battery War Is Successful, Electric Vehicle Prices Should Fall

The plot by recyclers to take down the commodities industry

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
5 min readNov 17, 2020

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A stack of all different sizes and types of batteries, displayed with their cathodes facing forward
Photo: Courtesy of Redwood Materials

The next big thing in electric vehicles is bringing down their price to the reach of the ordinary wallet. But of all the ways of accomplishing this, a vastly underappreciated method would be to attack the biggest source of high EV prices: the cost…

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Steve LeVine
The Mobilist

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.