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This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several...::A Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for stationary storage can extend their usefulness for several years.

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[–] Nighed@sffa.community 21 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I'm assuming that doing full charge/discharge cycles on them daily will put more wear on them than every day driving would?

But if your buying them at scrap value and the. Still selling them as scrap after a few more years I guess it works out.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being packed away in a static location has much lower energy density requirements than driving around with the battery on-board. Getting the most out of them and then reprocessing the materials seems better than just reprocessing right away once they're no longer useful for EVs.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly, it goes from being about the capacity:weight ratio to capacity:cost and as a bonus also postpones having to use powernto recycle them (and hopefully it'll be cheaper/more efficient to do so then).

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