for the new generation batteries costing between 1500 and 10000 depending on capacity electric cars are also still expensive and in 2019 they represented only 26 percent of global sales according to the international energy agency for myersdorf the sooner the world switches to electric vehicles the better pointing to the huge impact on the planet but recycling lithiumion batteries remains a problem with esperance noting that each has a lifespan of between 3000 and 3500 charges we must set up a recycling system as there is for leadacid batteries he said today this network is just being set up both the extraction and recycling of lithium pose ecological political and economic challenges for technology to overcome