Hopgood purchased a traditional bicycle, fitted it with a motorized wheel, and began testing the roughly 200 discarded vape batteries that his son, Ned, had collected over the previous year.

It’s cheaper to build lithium batteries into one-time-use items like disposable vape pens and just throw them out after one (or less than one) charge cycle, but if you have some spare time these ...

Instead of letting them pile up in a landfill, Doel dismantled the vapes and harvested their lithium-ion cells. Using these recycled cells, he built a 48-volt, 1,500-watt e-bike battery—one that ...

Using disposable vapes batteries to build a fast charge power bank 12:12 pm September 9, 2024 By Julian Horsey The environmental impact of disposable vapes is alarming, with millions ending up in ...