I’m tired of the way things are and am actually excited for BYD. They build really great electric vehicles and I saw one video where it charged up just as fact as refueling gasoline would be

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      The (small number of) TTC electric buses are BYD. They got built in Newmarket but I think the production stopped due to some issues. A larger scale attempt might be needed. :D That said, we might want to try that with sodium-ion batteries.

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        That is cool! I heard when they did the procurement a while ago, but I did not know what happened after. It is great to know that they were made here.

        I think once we have plenty of buses (and other EVs) around, the battery recycling will catch up. Just like it happened with the lead-acid.

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          the battery recycling will catch up.

          For sure. That said, for applications where applicable, sodium-ion kinda makes recycling moot. There’s “unlimited” supply of the input materials. CATL and some smaller factories just started production and it’s already cheaper than LFP. I haven’t checked if buses are suitable application but I think they should be.