Old EV Batteries Repurposed to Power California

13 Feb 2023 | Abstracted from WhichCar

American startup B2U "is powering California's electricity grid using 1300 old electric vehicle battery packs....world-first Lancaster facility has up to 25 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, and connected to a solar panel array...The company bundles the lithium-ion battery packs together, without the need to disassembled...claims to reduce grid-scale battery capital costs by around 40 per cent..."

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