A few companies are cropping up to do EV battery repairs so it may be affordable to a consumer. E.g. https://cedarelectric.co.uk/electric-and-hybrid-battery-re

A few companies are cropping up to do EV battery repairs so it may be affordable to a consumer. E.g. https://cedarelectric.co.uk/electric-and-hybrid-battery-repairs/ https://cedarelectric.co.uk/electric-and-hybrid-battery-repa... My thoughts are that even after 80% usage the battery still has a second life for use in home power storage. Even after that most of the battery parts can be recycled. I think that battery trade-in schemes will start to become affordable once these reuse and recycling routes are scaled up.