Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for solar storage can extend their usefulness for several years

[THE_DEVIL]

The SEPV Cuyama facility, located about two hours northeast of Santa Barbara, is the second hybrid storage facility opened by B2U Storage Solutions.

Almost all of the critical materials inside them, including lithium, nickel, and cobalt, are reusable. A growing domestic recycling industry, supported by billions of dollars in loans from the Energy Department and incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, is being built to prepare for what will one day be tens of millions of retired EV battery packs.

 

[billanole]

Lots of ingenuity is coming to the forefront of energy production, storage, distribution, and usage. This is one reason that I cannot understand people who say it will take “50 years” for new ways to dominate that field.