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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5407263" data-attributes="member: 24302">Except due to a lack of mined materials EV prices are going up.  EV manufacturers are going to highly depend on recycled batteries in the future for eventually up to 50% of their supply of needed minerals.  And that won't happen until there are millions of used up EV's.  Until then prices will continue to rise and even then recycling the very heavy batteries is an expensive process.  Transport costs by truck alone will account for 40% of the recycling process.  $48k for the cheapest Tesla?  Not for long.  Going up, not down.**Google search.</blockquote>