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Electric Vehicle Batteries May Have A New Source Material - Used Tires

30 Nov 2023 | Abstracted from CBS News

"T-Phite is putting used car tires through a process called pyrolysis...putting the tires under extreme heat so that they break down into smaller molecules...become three primary byproducts – pyrolytic oil, steel and carbon black...contains graphite material essential to providing an electric pathway within batteries for energy to surge.

"In the U.S. alone, roughly 250 million tires are left for scrap every year..."

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