California invested in EVs for the road, now needs a plan for their retirement
But in its rush to go electric, the state never allocated sufficient funding to determine what happens once those batteries expire.
They feel overall optimistic about the situation, Slattery said, but quite a lot is happening in the absence of policy. A problem with that, however, is that an environmental bill takes years to pass, Lapis told Insider. ReJoule recently launched a state-funded pilot project to adapt the used batteries for solar storage. Currently, the company has used batteries deployed at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, where solar panels feed electricity into the used battery storage units. using solar panels to generate electricity to charge car batteries.If successful, the project could extend the life of an EV battery by a decade or more.
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