A consortium led by automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz will set up a grid storage facility in Germany that will utilise used automotive batteries for home and industrial energy storage applications.
The project is based on the premise that when EV and plug-in vehicle batteries reach the end of their working life for automotive applications (no longer reliable to start a car), the battery still has up to 80% of its original storage capacity remaining.
The project is expected to be the “world’s largest grid storage facility using used batteries,” and will have the capacity to store 13MW of power, which will be enough to provide electricity to 130, 000 homes.
The batteries will also be connected to incorporate wind and solar power (...) Read on >