One of the big 'gotchas' anti-EV people on social media like to pull out is the future of your battery. In their heads, an expensive EV battery pack isn't going to last very long and
So, clearly, there are going to be many battery cells and battery packs in the future that will outlast the vehicles they were built for.The next obvious question from the haters and the oil-funded shills is what will happen to all of the orphaned batteries. Once again, they’re utterly un-recyclable, right? So, we’re back to “Sure, recycling will be challenging, but we aren’t even at that step in a battery cell’s life yet.
But, we’ve been making this stationary storage argument for years without much real-world testing, until now.A few days ago JERA Co., Inc. and Toyota initiated the world’s first large-capacity Sweep Energy Storage System. The system was created using batteries from previously owned electrified vehicles and is now connected to the consumer electrical power grid.
After JERA and Toyota’s initial discussion in 2018 about establishing battery reuse technologies, they eventually created this large-capacity grid-connected Sweep Energy Storage System. Toyota’s new storage system, called sweep, allows for the use of old car batteries that would normally be thrown away. This is done by controlling the energy discharge through a series of connected batteries in microseconds.
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