A British teenager has successfully built an electric scooter using batteries recycled from disposable e-cigarettes, NationalWorld reported.
Tobiasz Stanford, a 23-year-old college graduate, recently managed to charge his scooter with 80 lithium-ion batteries to show that disposable e-cigarettes aren’t disposable, as manufacturers claim.
Stafford said he uses the car every day and that it is very reliable. The scooter can reach a top speed of 25 kilometers per hour, can last up to six miles on a single charge, and can even cope with slopes and puddles.
After dismantling several e-cigarettes, he discovered that disposable e-cigarettes use lithium-ion batteries that can be recharged, and after a single cycle, they can operate almost like brand new batteries.
He got the old batteries for free and put them on a used scooter.
“It took me a month or two to put it together, and I had to connect the wiring of the battery carefully, but now scooters perform better with disposable e-cigarette batteries than they did before.”
He believes that the current promotion of disposable e-cigarettes is a waste, and the problem of “e-waste” needs to be paid more attention.
Stanford wants to ban single-use e-cigarettes or stop advertising them as disposable products.
“When these chemicals break down, lithium will start leaking out, and that will have ridiculous consequences.”
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[1] Recycling power: man uses 80 discarded vape batteries ‘marketed as disposable’ to power e-scooter