Lead is in just about every car and truck, regardless of whether the vehicle has an internal-combustion engine, uses hybrid technology or is pure electric. Here is a look at the battery metal no one wants to talk about by AndyHomeMetals
Stacks of lead bars, used for preparing FIAMM batteries, at the factory in Avezzano, near L'Aquila, November 28, 2014. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
Yet it is largely absent from any discussion of battery materials in the coming electric vehicle and energy storage revolutions.The lead-acid battery was invented in 1859 by a French physicist, Gaston Plante. While plenty of other scientists were experimenting with electrical storage in the middle of the 19th century, Plante’s breakthrough was to create a battery that could be recharged.
The Consortium for Battery Innovation relaunched earlier this year to stimulate research into “advanced” lead batteries, with one eye on the burgeoning market for energy storage systems. Lead was added to gasoline in the United States in the 1920s and despite mounting evidence of its toxicity, not least for workers employed in the industry, was fully removed only in 1996.The U.S. state of New Jersey unveiled a $120 million plan in August to speed up the replacement of old lead pipes in Newark after tests found that some of the water filters previously distributed were not working properly. The city even handed out bottled water to some residents.
What it can do is try to spread the recycling message beyond the developed world into the developing world, where recycling regulations are, to quote the International Lead Association , often “inadequate, non-existent or ineffectively enforced”.
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