3rd April 2021
A tiny percentage of Lithium ion batteries get recycled whilst most go to landfill. Existing battery waste from small electronic devices are already causing E waste concerns everywhere. With consumer demand and populations driving E vehicles on the rise along with battery home storage systems, this could all become a catastrophic problem. Electric cars are expected to add the most to waste volumes.
Researchers and companies around the world are looking to resolve this problem by improving battery storage technology and ways of reusing Electric Vehicle batteries.
Melbourne-based Relectrify develops and supplies advanced battery control solutions, which increase the lifetime and reduce the cost of battery storage systems. When taking a used battery out of an electric car it comprises several individual batteries. When one battery weakens it can weaken the entire set. Relectrify ensures that from used batteries out of one vehicle you get the maximum performance out of every single battery. At the end of its shelf life, it still has 80 per cent of capacity available for other applications.
The company's cell-level battery management and inverter technology is used in battery storage globally including for homes, industry and the grid, and is suitable for both second-life and new batteries.
Batteries are becoming a fundamental building block of the new energy industry with uptake across households, business and power grids. This is all set to grow. Exponentially. Recycled batteries can be repurposed - including 12V batteries and household solar battery systems.
Relectrify have developed ReVolve, a cost effective, sustainable, long lasting battery energy strorage system (BESS). These are powered by Relectrify’s technology to repurpose second life batteries from electric vehicles. The ReVolve is developed for commercial installations and used by power utilities, remote and off-grid sites, businesses such as large office buildings, farms, manufacturing sites, and community energy projects.
Relectrify have been working alongside a number of business partners and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
