What happens when an electric vehicle (EV) battery no longer meets EV performance standards which typically mean maintaining 80 percent of total usable capacity and achieving a resting self-discharge rate of only about 5 percent over a 24-hour period? Reincarnation of the innovative kind.
Batteries aren’t dead when they come to the end of their useful first life. Manufactures are resurrecting them using three solutions: disposal, recycle and most importantly, reuse in innovative applications that create significant value and encourage more renewable-power integration into grids.