"It's totally like the Wild West," said Zora Chung, co-founder of ReJoule, Inc., a startup project based in Signal Hill that is exploring repurposing used batteries from EVs.
However, there are no EV battery recycling plants that exist in California, nor tried-and-true recycling programs in place to deal with the fallout.
Currently, the company has used batteries deployed at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, where solar panels feed electricity into the used battery storage units.
Charging station for electric and hybrid cars using solar panels to generate electricity to charge car batteries.
"Imagine if it just took you one full work week to qualify one used battery," Chung said.