Second Life Adds More Green Punch To EV Battery Recycling (Eventually)
Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund is supporting a new “second life” venture that complements EV battery recycling by extending the useful life of the whole battery.
Second Life Batteries
Black Mass To Rescue EV Battery Supply Chain
The Canadian EV battery recycling startup RecycLiCo is among the innovators to deploy black mass for new batteries.
The Great Grid-Scale Battery Boom Comes To The US
The United States is rapidly installing grid-scale batteries that are helping to prevent power blackouts, known in German as Dunkelflaute, according to The Guardian. From barely any just a few years ago, the US has now installed 20 GW of grid-scale battery storage for its electric grid — equivalent to … [continued]
Smartville’s New Mana Power System Makes It Easy To Use EV Batteries For Home Energy…
Smartville showed up to Intersolar 2024 in San Diego this year in a booth in the startup corridor tucked way back in an unassuming corner of the show floor. Hidden in their booth in an unassuming gray box was perhaps the most exciting piece of tech we saw at the … [continued]
Altilium & Connected Energy Collaborate to Extend the Lifecycle of EV Batteries
Altilium, a UK-based clean technology group focused on supporting the transition to net zero, and Connected Energy, a leading developer of second-life battery energy storage systems, have today announced a new strategic relationship that will see the two companies working together to extend the lifecycle of EV batteries. The collaboration … [continued]
IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications & Technologies (EESAT 2025)
The IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT 2025) conference will be held January 20–21, 2025, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Charlotte Uptown, in Charlotte, NC. This technical conference will be co-located with the IEEE Energy Storage and Stationary Battery (ESSB) Committee’s winter meeting to be held January 22-24, 2025. … [continued]
New Solar Power & Energy Storage System Uses Former Electric Vehicle Batteries
One of the common myths about electric vehicle batteries is that they are hard to recycle when they are no longer being used or can’t be used in a vehicle. This notion is not true, and to the contrary, some former electric vehicle batteries are being used for stationary energy … [continued]
Smartville Is Giving Used Automotive Batteries A Second Life
Smartville emerged as the product of of the University of San Diego, California, as a result of the research of co-founders Antoni Tong and Mike Ferry. They realized the need for and the opportunity to build a business around triaging and repurposing second life electric vehicle batteries. Ferry is the … [continued]
Jaguar Land Rover Makes Sure Used EV Batteries Get Used Again
One of the big questions people ask (sometimes disingenuously) is what will be done with all of the batteries after the end of an EV’s life. If EVs don’t last very long, and then all those batteries end up in junkyards, then we’ll have a major environmental problem on our … [continued]
Unico Launches New Quantum Drive Platform For High-Efficiency Battery Testing
Unico, a leading provider of innovative EV test solutions, has launched its new Quantum Drive Platform. The Unico Quantum Drive platform is designed to help companies develop and validate batteries for electric vehicles and reduce installation costs and ongoing operating expenses. Unico’s new Quantum Drive Platform is expected to revolutionize … [continued]
