Please, please, please re-read that sentence and think about it in light of what you know about the US auto market and its protectionism.

There's plenty of thought given to recycling; Lithium battery recycling is a steadily growing industrial sector.

But you know what's better than recycling? Not throwing out something that's still perfectly usable.

Not sure if you're old enough to remember, but the original slogan was "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." The words were in that order for a reason. This would be the "Reuse" part, by the way.
=Smidge=

That is because you do not understand the question. "Tool making" is about being able to design a tool, not about making one you have seen before or doing minor adaptions. I guess you are not a tool-maker.

I see you're new to capitalism. Can I borrow your unicorn? I want to take it on a walk through fantasy-land.

Or they could put a Stargate on a ship and the cast winds up stranded there, but still visiting the planet of the week while evading the alien enemy of the week. oh wait!

- cancelled too soon, it was just getting legs.

> if cells can be replaced that easily, why isn't it being done for Cybercabs?

Well I think the most likely reason is Cybercabs don't exist yet. Not that facts or details mean much to you I suppose...

Or did you mean robo taxis? Well, we don't actually know *how* the used batteries are being repurposed. It's entirely possible they are harvesting the sub-assemblies, capacity-matching and repackaging them with new BMS controls. Or they might be using the entire EV pack as-is. The Jaguar I-Pace packs are 90kwh each and consist of 36 subassemblies each 42v/60Ah nominal. IMO it would make a lot of sense to independently test modules, regroup them based on health, and build higher voltage packs suitable for grid storage use.

We also don't know if Waymo ever services their vehicles with pack refurbishing or not.

The fleet is also kinda old; Some of those cars are pushing 10 years of taxi service and 200K+ miles of abusive charging. They suspiciously do not say how many miles the vehicles have, how degraded the battery packs are, or what the capacity threshold is for them. It's possible they are writing off the vehicles early for the sake of upgrading; they get a tax break for depreciation, new equipment with the newest tech, and some good PR.
=Smidge=

Great, let's have another world record setting BESS fire.

These are the same packs that caused the last one.

Surely it's a good plan to double down instead of recycling them into something less shit!

So then the same shit NCM packs that caught fire in Moss Landing?

Tool making (which would be required) is one step above tool using. Note that most humans can use tools, but only a relative small group can really make tools. Also note that this is about Bumblebees, not honey-bees.

I see their propaganda lies are working on weaker minds. Well, maybe you should actually use an LLM to replace your thinking. May be an improvement.

Sude, if you are sore with no clue, maybe just keep it to yourself? This model of battery lifecycle is about 30 years old. It had limited commercial success before, but it was always clear that this is the thing to do.

Nah, 10 years ago they still had the same definition the GP is using: AI is a machine that can do things machines cannot currently do.

That does not change the fact that as soon as one develops a self-improving AI, the world will become a very different and probably very awful place.

Why? It's funny, a bunch of people believe AI is absolutely impossible because you can't create a soul or brains are magic or hyperdimensional pineal gateways or something. The rest seem to believe it can do anything including instantly becoming so intelligent it's magic.

So the answer to the GP's question is "yes."

I don't think you need AI for that either. LinkedIn was just as douchey before.

No, npm is literally the opposite of that.

I run Drupal and it uses composer, which does basically the same thing. But then I want some javascript libraries that you can't get through composer repos itself, you need to get them from npm. So every time there's one of these npm exploit stories I say oh shit, some more shit I need to read. Luckily I'm only pulling in literally two packages from there. But I don't need to do this, I only do it specifically for the purpose of not having my site refer to some other site for those javascript libraries. That way, someone else changing their library doesn't automatically screw up my site, or more plausibly since I am not running any javascript on the server side, start back dooring other people who visit there. So npm is exactly the kind of thing you think people should be using, except with less oversight which is why we keep hearing about loads of compromised packages.