A pioneering new project aims to supercharge the UK’s progress on electric vehicle (EV) battery sustainability. Led by Nissan, the programme will build UK R&D capability and strengthen the technical expertise of teams in the country around zero emission vehicles and batteries.
As part of the initiative, Connected Energy will lead on the second-life battery element of the project, building on the company’s existing technology to deliver large-scale energy storage sites using EV batteries.
Connected Energy designs and develops energy storage systems using second life EV batteries. Applications for systems include overcoming power capacity issues on the grid, helping buildings with solar arrays to maximise their use of renewable energy and providing energy resilience. Repurposing EV batteries in this way, before they are recycled, significantly reduces their environmental impact.
The project strand will develop world-leading energy storage technology which uses multiple battery types with different states of health and performance characteristics. This will enable the company to demonstrate the ability of large scale second life systems to compete with new lithium-ion systems.
“Our goal is to develop and demonstrate a pioneering economic model for large-scale second life energy storage systems that can be easily scaled up further and replicated,” said Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy.
