{"id":402271,"date":"2021-02-27T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=402271"},"modified":"2021-02-27T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:11:54","slug":"used-electric-car-batteries-are-heading-to-factories-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/used-electric-car-batteries-are-heading-to-factories-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Used electric car batteries are heading to factories, farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired electric vehicle batteries that are repackaged into energy-storage systems are being targeted at industrial consumers who\u2019ve been slower to adopt the technology than utilities or homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>Relectrify, an Australian technology developer, is beginning sales of units that repurpose expired Nissan Motor Co. Leaf batteries to create products capable of storing renewable power at manufacturing facilities, farms or remote mines. The systems can also be used to smooth out peaks in electricity demand at EV charging stations, or by utilities to improve the reliability of complex rural grids.<\/p>\n<p>So-called second-life battery systems harness the remaining lifespan in EV packs, which can typically perform less demanding tasks for another seven to 10 years even after they\u2019re no longer capable of powering cars. Eaton Corp. has installed reused batteries for backup power at sites including Amsterdam\u2019s Johan Cruijff ArenA, while Sumitomo Corp., Renault SA and BYD Co. are among others that have tested a range of applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired electric vehicle batteries that are repackaged into energy-storage systems are being targeted at industrial consumers who\u2019ve been slower to adopt the technology than utilities or homeowners. Relectrify, an Australian technology developer, is beginning sales of units that repurpose expired Nissan Motor Co. Leaf batteries to create products capable of storing renewable power at manufacturing facilities, farms or remote mines. The systems can also be used to smooth out peaks in electricity demand at EV charging stations, or by utilities to improve the reliability of complex rural grids. So-called second-life battery systems harness the remaining lifespan in EV packs, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}