May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
18h 52m
English
V.V. Viswanathan; M.C. Kintner-Meyer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
This chapter discusses the reuse of electric vehicle (EV) batteries at the end of their useful life in vehicles. EV batteries typically have 80% of their energy and power capacity at the end of vehicle life. Multiple grid applications are expected to come online in the next two decades. This would require development of storage technologies for each application, leading to delays in deployment of these technologies for the various applications. This chapter provides insight on the advantages of using the used EV batteries for a myriad of grid applications, thus providing an alternative ...
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