Mongolia Lacks Battery Waste Management System
Mongolia lacks a comprehensive system to manage growing stockpiles of electric vehicle batteries. The current volume of these vehicles represents approximately half of all cars in Mongolia. Profits for related sectors have reportedly slumped by more than 55%. The scale of the problem is estimated to represent half of all cars in the country. The Mongolian government admits it is failing to track the disposal locations of electric vehicle battery waste. Mechanics at service centers are frequently swapping out nickel metal hydride batteries in vehicles like Toyotas due to regular failures caused by age and local conditions. The government acknowledged there are serious gaps in the waste management channels. Previously, waste was sent to Japan via Russia in an illegal manner, but current processes lack authorized companies, licensed facilities, or proper recycling infrastructure.
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“The operator used to export these batteries back to Japan, but now that has been made illegal. So these batteries are stuck and growing in number. Mongolia has no comprehensive system to deal with this waste.”
“nomadic herders using hybrid EVs across Mongolia. Curious to know how did these groundwater just a fresh something behind. And now Mongolia is left to answer a difficult question. How can it deal with the legacy of its vast fleet of inherited Priests?”
“The importation of used vehicles, Mongolia has actually done the opposite and their policies have facilitated this deluge of secondhand hybrids. There are low import taxes, there's duty exemptions for these types of vehicles, they're marketed as clean cars and so that's why you have streets and not to mention the fields and the desert plains full of these really old hybrid vehicles as you say hundreds of thousands of them half of all cars in Mongolia.”
“The importation of used vehicles, Mongolia has actually done the opposite and their policies have facilitated this deluge of secondhand hybrids. There's low import taxes, there's duty exemptions for these types of vehicles, they're marketed as clean cars and so that's why you have streets and not to mention the fields and the desert plains full of these really old hybrid vehicles.”
“say hundreds of thousands of them half of all cars in Mongolia.”
“But right now Mongolia is failing to keep track of where its battery waste is ending up. The government admits that there are really serious channel.”
“The government admits that there are really serious channel. And previously these were going back to Japan via Russia that was made illegal. So now anyone can collect them. But trying to do that in an illegal way is a bit of a gray area.”
“how to collect them and store them would be coming, but they are expensive and they will take time to plan and be operational.”
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