Car batteries are known as wet cell batteries. The battery recycling process incurs dissecting the battery into its various components of lead or silver, acid, the outer covering plastic and also the distilled water. A crusher takes care of the breakdown then the most valuable parts, the lead or silver are extracted. The lead is melted, acid neutralised and water the water is purified.
Recycling car batteries is not the only batteries that can be recycled. Fore more information, take a look at Recycling Batteries.
