Where do electric car batteries go when they die?

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🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It’s Wednesday again, and we’re answering your questions about the labor market — like why we don’t aim for 100% employment. We’ll also give some extra context around the idea of a “skills gap” in our economy. And Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams dig into a bunch of questions from one listener related to the logistics of owning an electric vehicle.

Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

“How the U.S. Health Insurance System Excludes Abortion” from the Center for American Progress
The Guttmacher Institute’s tracker on state regulation of insurance coverage for abortion
“Funds that help low-income people pay for abortions are seeing a sharp uptick in donations” from Marketplace
“There’s a lot of money on both sides of the abortion debate. How much does it matter?” from Marketplace
Consumer Reports’ research on electric vehicle maintenance costs
“Cars Are Going Electric. What Happens to the Used Batteries?” from Wired
University of California, Davis, researchers’ look at transportation costs for recycling old EV batteries
“Hamsterkauf! Coronazeit! There’s a German Word for Your Pandemic Experience.” from Slate

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0:00.0	Alright, this is weird by the way.
0:02.0	It's a little weird.
0:03.0	I think the actual I'm just not gonna look at you.
0:05.0	It's not a one day.
0:07.0	Alright, we'll both keep our eyes down.
0:09.0	I'm not gonna look at you.
0:10.0	I was down today.
0:12.0	Hey everybody, I'm Kyle, Rizda.
0:13.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:14.0	Making the Day Make Sense is what we're doing on this pod.
0:17.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams sitting in the DC bureau with Kai actively not looking at me.
0:23.0	I know, I did.
0:24.0	It's just bizarre.
0:25.0	So I've been down for some other stuff and we were in a, you know,
0:29.0	10 by 10 little booth here and it's just bizarre.
0:31.0	That's all I'm saying.
0:32.0	And don't worry, we both tested negative for COVID very recently.
0:35.0	But thank you for joining us for what do you want to know Wednesday,
0:38.0	the day that we answer your questions.
0:40.0	You can email those questions to make me smart at marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail.
0:45.0	Our number is 508 UB Smart.
0:48.0	First up voicemail, which I think is pegged to our deep dive last week with the
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