Abstract

The industrial car manufacturers see in the high battery price an important obstacle for an electric vehicle mass selling, thus mass production. Therefore, in order to find some cost relieves and better selling opportunities, they look and push forward to find profitable second battery uses. This study presents, by showing different results and applications, the main goal as unachievable and indicates that most of the possibilities analyzed have such a low, if not negative, revenue for being considered a profitable business. Even in a supposed case of a suitable second use business, the buying price of old electric vehicles batteries would have decreased by a 90%, so there would not be a substantial price reduction applicable to new batteries. Therefore, no mass selling will occur and the “glorious” cycle will be broken.