A lab at San Diego State University is filled with bundles of wires, some of them attached to battery cells being tested.
Near the center of the room is a black, steel case containing about 300 of those cells and weighing more than a thousand pounds.
It’s a car battery that once inhabited a Nissan Leaf.
Now imagine a million battery cases like that being dumped into California’s waste and recycling stream every year, as electric vehicles and their batteries reach the end of their lives. Something like that will start happening after 2035, when Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order takes effect.
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