This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several...

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Where could millions of EV batteries retire? Solar farms.
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This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several...::A Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for stationary storage can extend their usefulness for several years.

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Really puts into perspective what a monumental waste of energy individual traffic, also with electric cars, is as well.

Well, sort of, it's just that any sort of locomotion requires a lot more energy than you might think.

Yeah sure. But there's a difference between moving a 2 ton vehicle per person or a bike.