Nissan plans to put retired lithium-ion batteries of electric cars to New Use

Nissan plans to put retired lithium-ion batteries of electric cars to New Use

Nissan wants to develop a way to use of retired lithium-ion battery packs from electric vehicles (used in its Leaf electric cars as well) to store electricity from the public power grid during off-peak hours, and then make it available for use when electricity use is heavy.

To get ahead in its plans, Franklin-based Nissan North America Inc., has joined hands with three energy-technology companies. To go forward, Nissan will allow the energy companies to use batteries from its Leaf electric cars to be converted to backup power sources for residential and commercial use after they are removed from the cars.

According to Nissan, the primary seed thought has potential of paving the way for something good; as when the battery packs no longer have enough power for practical use in the Leaf, they will still have about 70 percent of their capacity left.

Nissan plans to make the retired batteries useful in large arrays to take a charge from the power grid during off-peak hours. This stored power will be used when the power demand is at peak. A team including representatives from Nissan and the partners — Switzerland-based ABB, 4R Energy of Japan and Sumitomo Corp. of America — plans to develop a battery-storage system that, in each installation, could provide up to 50 kilowatt-hours of electricity (Kilowatt-hour is also called Unit).

According to Nissan that much energy will be sufficient to power about 15 homes for up to two hours. --------

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