I pay 610 for a whole house with a garage in my city, I simply got extremely lucky and met a landlord that isn't in it to get rich. My neighbors pay 1800/mo.

The batteries are absolutely recyclable, but they're mostly just reused for grid storage after they can no longer run a vehicle. My local scrapyard has no problem selling EV batteries, they never have any available. Also, I have over a million combined miles on Toyota hybrid batteries all running.

Burning isn't the environmentally friendly answer, dismantle them and EV swap existing cars with their components.

Ariel Atom clone, if you like off road go for the nomad! Cut the front off a fwd car and graft it onto the back of a kart frame.