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How It's Made Mini-Episodes: Car Battery Recycling
Car batteries may die, but that doesn't mean it's the end of the road for the components. In this minisode of How It's Made, find out how car batteries are stripped down and recycled to make new ones.
Added: Apr 26, 2011
Views: 24470 Views
Runtime: 05:07
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