A burgeoning market for used EV batteries

[kristopher]

A burgeoning market for used EV batteries
April 14, 2010 - by Lisa Sibley, Cleantech Group

Companies including Nissan and General Motors are eyeing an expected secondary market for advanced batteries, finds the Cleantech Group’s Lisa Sibley.
There appears to be a growing new market for advanced batteries after their lifespans in electric vehicles expire.

What will the future of this market look like exactly?

It’s hard to forecast, but companies including Nissan and General Motors want a piece of it. They are looking to sell used batteries from their electric vehicles to wind farm operators, among others, according to a recent article in the UK’s Times newspaper.

Japanese trading house Itochu and advanced battery company EnerDel, a subsidiary of New York-based Ener1, are also looking into the secondary life for battery packs after they've degraded from use in electric vehicles. In a secondary capacity, they still appear to have significant remaining storage capability (see Sneak peek at Itochu’s Green Crossover initiative).

And these are just a few recent examples.

Old batteries could have energy storage applications in emergency power supplies, homes, offices, elevators, vending machines, apartments, and cell phone towers. All these potential secondary applications offer a way to help bring down the cost of the batteries themselves, and in turn the price of electric vehicles.

This could be huge for the industry, a...

http://cleantech.com/news/5773/burgeoning-market-used-ev-batteries

[madokie]

1. Kick & rec

If the price is right I'm sure there is a lot of people who would like to have those used batteries.

[NNadir]

2. The number of anti-nukes who don't fall over themselves praising the car CULTure is zero.

Tellingly, these assholes don't give a fuck where asphalt comes from.

And you know what's going to be left of the Gulf of Mexico after Amory Lovin's paymasters are done with it?

Asphalt. It comes from fucking oil.

Have a nice greaseball day.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Many freeways and roadways don't use asphalt; they use concrete.

We all know that, and hopefully know the contribution cement manufacturing makes to CO2 emissions, so roads and the personal automobile are the problems.

Rapid transit seems to be the way to go, but electric cars can run on carbon free electrons, from nukes or solar or wind.

So we should all be happy, me, you and Lovins.

:hi:

[skids]

4. Does make me wonder...

Just how much fossil carbon is sequestered in roadways worldwide. Up here when they repave, they only scrape down about half as far as the last time they paved. Has to build up over time. I wonder how thick I-90 is by now.