[jdietrich]

It takes around 850g of lithium carbonate to produce one kWh of lithium batteries. The current market price for lithium carbonate is about $14/kg. The base spec Tesla Model 3 has a 57.5kWh battery pack, so the lithium in the pack represents a cost of ~$685, or just under 2% of the list price of the vehicle.

A typical disposable vape contains about five cents worth of lithium.

https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Technical-P...

[leipert]

Another post in this thread mentions 1.8 million disposable vapes being sold per week in Australia. So that corresponds to 131 EV batteries per week. Or roughly 48000 EV batteries per year. 87000 EVs were registered in Australia in 2023.

Make of that what you want, but disposable electronics to administer nicotine seem to be a major waste.