The first charging station in Spain to use second-life electric bus batteries for energy storage is now online. The batteries come from Irizar electric buses. The charging stations are beingContinue Reading
Stena’s Recycling subsidiary Batteryloop has entered in an agreement with Volvo Buses to reuse their batteries as energy storage units for a number of years, for instance in buildings andContinue Reading
German carmaker Audi and utility EnBW are setting up an electric car battery operation at EnBW’s Heilbronn plant to build scaleable storage facilities by the end of this year, drawingContinue Reading
The growth in deployments of lithium batteries will inevitably create a large flow of retired or used batteries. Today they seem to be present everywhere from scooters to motorcycles, sportscars,Continue Reading
Is repurposing EV batteries as energy storage devices commercially viable? Tesla has already decided it is better to recycle used batteries to recapture raw materials rather than repurpose them. ButContinue Reading
A lithium-ion battery which is used to power an automobile, degrades over time. But when no longer suitable for use in a vehicle, those batteries typically have 60 to 70%Continue Reading
