Don’t believe the press releases. Just because a company says something is recyclable doesn’t mean it is. This car is definitely less recyclable than most cars made in the last 50 years.

Aluminum and steel are the most easily and most frequently recycled materials in the world and they have true full cycle recyclability (they can be made into the same products over and over and over again)

Composite materials on the other hand are next to impossible to recycle. They do not decompose like their component parts. Cardboard coated in a heavy polyurethane will end up in a land fill. The other plastics will also end up in a land fill. Almost none of this car will end up being recycled.

Basically this entire car after it has run it’s life will end up in a landfill and won’t decompose for hundreds of thousands of years.

A normal car made of steal will be 80 to 90% recycled and even if it did end up in a landfill or parked in forest somewhere would mostly rust away and decompose in a matter of decades. The only things recognizable after a century would be the plastic bits.