hahahaha... such Postulation, Theorization & Conjecture hahahaha... Lack of Daily Soap Opera's to watch and bored gullible minds let loose.
FACTiods: Companies like CATL, EVE etc sell A Grade with reports etc BUT in Minimum Quantities of 5,000 Pieces.
Blue LFP Prismatics are not used in production EV Packs ! EV being a proper Car/Truck or even Bus. See BYD EV Packs and other companies' CTP Packs which use LFP, most are Pouch or Cylindrical (if structural) and the pouch types are often Long & Narrow and only 2cm thick.
EV Battery Packs from pretty much every single EV producers have been torn down and videos are available. The LFP Packs as used by BYD, Tesla etc have also been done... You NEVER See Blue Prismatics !
FYI: Companies will sell Un-Qualified cells which do not make Grade as B / Bulk cells as long as they work and meet basic qualifiers. Those that do not are indeed recycled, CATL & EVE both have On-Site recycling facilities within the factory compounds, other companies are doing similar where teh recover & reuse the materials. Many Manufacturers are also involved in external recycling concerns around the world... ie CATL's German Factory (now in production) has a Recycling Faciltiy within to take defective packs & used packs in for recycling of the materials. Some are partnering with recyclers like LiCycle, Redwood (Panasonic/Tesla/SK)... Even NorthVolt EU incorporates Recycling facilities within their factories.
Safe Bet most if not all of the commenters here don't even know that the Battery Plants being built within the US also all have recycling either on-site or with a partnered company within the safe geo-location... and YES SK, Panasonic and the others are also producing "dud" cells some of which go to brokers & resold while those that do not make grade go to recycle/recovery...
I know some will want to rant & rave and go off... go for it and expose yourselves, it's fun to watch people toss themselves under the bus. Freak out over my comments if you want I won't respond to "stoopid", there is no point.
REMEMBER ! "
what side of this are you on"