Vector eyes late-life EV batteries for home storage

Vector eyes late-life EV batteries for home storage
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans July 4 (BusinessDesk) - Vector, the country’s biggest power distributor, is investigating ways to use late-life batteries from electric vehicles as a cheap form of energy storage for homes and businesses. The company has been working with Melbourne-based Relectrify to see how batteries from a Nissan Leaf, the most common EV in New Zealand, would work when combined with smart battery control technology in a home. Vector says packs of the re-purposed batteries were able to provide about 15 kilowatt-hours of usable energy,...

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