Has Battery Recycling Arrived Too Soon? What About Second Life Energy Storage?
Battery recycling and second life grid storage applications for used EV batteries are expanding, but is that happening too soon?
Second Life Batteries
Relectrify Sets To Scale Its Cell-Level Battery Control Technology With The Backing Of Toyota Ventures
Second life battery cells coupled with advanced battery managed systems (BMS) and inverter technologies provide a route to cheaper, more sustainable stationary storage for various applications. Relectrify from Australia is one of the lead players in this sector. Relectrify’s ReVolve® battery system combines Relectrify’s BMS+Inverter technology with nine second-life electric … [continued]
USU Team Develops Solar Energy Storage Systems Using “Retired” Batteries from Electric Vehicles, Named Finalist…
Technology Could Dramatically Reduce Cost of Solar Energy Storage
Relectrify Launches 120kWh-2MWh Commercial & Industrial Second-Life Battery Product
There has been a lot of progress in the electric vehicle industry over the past ten years. Ten years ago, the Nissan Leaf was one of the few mass production fully electric vehicles on the market. It had a 24 kWh battery pack that was good for about 140 km … [continued]
Revov South Africa Goes Big On Second-Life Batteries For Stationary Storage Applications
Revov South Africa is going big on second-life batteries for stationary storage applications.
CATL Says It Has A Million-Mile Battery. Is There A Connection To Tesla?
CATL says it has a battery ready for sale that has a 16-year life and can power an electric car for 2 million kilometers.
Berlin-Based betteries Wants To Catalyze Adoption Of Sustainable Second-Life Lithium-Ion Batteries With Stackable Multipurpose Packs
We all have to do a whole lot better to address climate change and make the world a better place for the current and future generations. The transition to electromobility will go a long way in doing this by helping reduce emissions. There are now over 7 million electric passenger … [continued]
Quick Guide To EV Battery Reuse & Recycling
The growth in deployments of lithium batteries will inevitably create a large flow of retired or used batteries. By 2030, analysts predict that retirements could exceed half a million vehicles annually or over 2 million metric tonnes of batteries per year.
Promises, Promises: BMW Aims To Double Energy Density Of Batteries By 2030, But Will It…
BMW says it is working on battery cells that will have twice the energy density of today’s cells — by 2030. The company deserves some credit for its recycling and ethical business practices but it needs to get in the electric car game in a big way soon.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe Details Plans To Move Into Stationary Energy Storage
Rivian hosted a roundtable discussion for 800 of its reservation holders to talk a little bit about how the company is progressing in the move to production. They also took the opportunity to talk about an exciting microgrid project they’re working on with the Honnold Foundation in Puerto Rico.
