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Mildly dramatized article in Wired Magazine by Sabrina Weiss about the need to step up our game on recycling all those fancy new traction batteries:

The World Needs to Crack Battery Recycling, Fast | WIRED UK

"electric vehicles don’t emit any carbon dioxide when being driven, but their rechargeable batteries are causing environmental and social concerns of their own. They contain scarce and expensive metals. And once the batteries are past their prime, they are tough to recycle."

my doctor's wife gots one and I was mentioning my Prime's "CRG" setting to charge up battery while driving around with engine and he was clueless and asked him again 6weeks later and he said it don't seem to have and only Plug In for Batt.

BMW youtubes seem to confirm. Then again ALL Toyota dealers where clueless and this seems to be an almost hidden feature (but its my fave).

• Kia bests Tesla’s previous record for shortest charging time to cross the U.S. in an electric vehicle by more than five hours
• The average charging stop during the nearly 3,000-mile journey lasted less than 20 minutes
  

All−new, all−electric Kia EV6 takes Guinness World Records™ title in journey across the United States