Where could millions of EV batteries retire? Solar farms.
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A Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for stationary storage can extend their usefulness for several years.

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.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Do you think personal safety, firefighting ability, and effects on the environment has informed the design of like… anything in the last 50 years?

    “Faster to catch fire, faster to spread, faster to catastrophically fail, more dangerous to life and health, and worse for the environment when it does so” describes anything from modern house construction to vehicle manufacturing.

    Priority one is “cheaper”, the rest is just noise.