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Electric car battery packs can still be useful after their life on the road. Jaguar wants to demonstrate this by giving used battery packs from the I-Pace a new purpose.
Usually, batteries of electric cars can last quite a long time and car manufacturers are increasingly making them recyclable. Before batteries have to be recycled, there may be another function for them. Even if the capacity is no longer optimal, they can still be useful. Jaguar proves this together with the British Wykes Engineering.
Thirty used batteries from Jaguar’s I-Pace are used for a Battery Energy Storage System from Wykes. In short, a large battery that you can use to relieve the load on the power grid. For example, the BESS can deliver power at peak times and take power from the grid at off-peak times. According to Jaguar, the battery packs still have about 85 percent of their original capacity, resulting in a total battery capacity of 2.5 MWh per BESS.
The batteries mentioned come from prototypes and test examples of the Jaguar I-Pace. Batteries from depreciated Jaguar production cars may also be used in the future. According to JLR, there could be more than 200 GWh capacity with such systems by 2030 in this way.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl