“Electric cars in California are not sustainable as only 10% of their batteries are recyclable and the state can’t recycle them.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 9 Jun 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Science shows recycling methods can recover up to 95% of a battery’s material and companies from other states are partnering with California to recycle its electric car batteries.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 June 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 August 2022, 63 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CelIr_8AKWe/
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