The potential crisis posed by dead electric car batteries

There are now over 100,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on Australian roads and although their proliferation is still in its infancy, a government-backed body plans to set up infrastructure to prevent end-of-life batteries ending up in landfill.

Research commissioned by the Battery Stewardship Council (BSC) and conducted by the Institute of Sustainable Futures at the University of Sydney indicates there will be almost 30,000 tonnes of end-of-life EV batteries by 2030.

This amount of…