Why are the old lead-acid batteries “recycled at high prices”?

Electric vehicle battery has a certain service life, after a few years of using, the endurance of the electric vehicle will be significantly reduced, at this time we need to replace the battery. At this moment, if the old battery is lead-acid that someone will recycle it at high price, but if it’s lithium battery, no one cares, and he nees to buy a whold new lithium battery. What is it about this ? Listen to the following brief analysis.

Why the people recycle the old lead-acid battery “at high price”?

First, we should have a preliminary understanding of the lead-acid battery, lead-acid battery is mainly composed of electrolyte and lead plate electrode, and the main component is lead, accounting about 75% to 85% of storage batteries, lead is a non-ferrous metal, so it has the value of recycling. Moreover, the more critical point is that the manufacturing process of the lead-acid battery is simple, very easy to dismantle, after the disassembly it can be very easily recycled.

Since the recycling process of metal lead in lead-acid batteries is not complicated, many small workshops separate the batteries, recycle the metal lead, and then sell the recycled metal lead to the battery manufactures to get profit from the price difference, sellers of electric car will also profit from it .

Due to the high proportion of lead in lead-acid batteries, a group of lead-acid batteries can recycle a large amount of metal lead, generally speaking, 5kilos can recycle 4 kilos of lead ,so there is a huge profit in dismantling and recycling metal lead.

Except for producing new front-end batteries, there are some unscrupulous entrepreneurs who will repair or refurbish some of the batter-quality of old battery and sell them as new one.