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Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by gedaliyah to c/technology
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Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones.

To make a point about how wasteful this practice is—and to also make a pretty rad project and video—Chris Doel took 130 disposable vape batteries (the bigger "3,500 puff" types with model 20400 cells) found littered at a music festival and converted them into a 48-volt, 1,500-watt e-bike battery, one that powered an e-bike with almost no pedaling more than 20 miles. You can see the whole build and watch Doel zoom along trails on his YouTube video.

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[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it matter which is worse when we can take care of both problems?

No one ever talks about stopping cigarettes from being filtered. It's not as if the filter actually makes cigarettes safe. They just make them easier on your lungs as you smoke and you're less likely to get bits of tobacco in your mouth. Maybe that shouldn't be a thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Filters could be made biodegradable. Batteries? Probably but not in our lifetime.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 18 hours ago

Or they could just not be made at all.