Powering an E-Bike From Tossed Vape Batteries ⇥ youtube.com

Chris Doel in a video on YouTube:

The rechargeable cells in disposable vapes are so valuable, why are they thrown away after one use?!

In this video I extract 130 disposable vape batteries and convert it into a 1500W ebike battery.

There are probably some money-minded people who are impressed by how commoditized lithium-ion batteries have become. But this seems to me like obvious waste. For one thing, it is a bad idea to throw lithium-ion batteries in the garbage, let alone litter with them. For another, this is a terribly inefficient use of resources, and the manufacturers must be aware of that. One of them writes, in its FAQ, that its disposable vape model “is a rechargeable device containing a non-replaceable lithium-ion battery”, but because it is not refillable, it cannot be re-used. It seems impossible to me to write a sentence like that without realizing its absurdity.

(Via Ian Betteridge, who had a great point about this but is currently doing a website migration and I am unable to find the post.)