Once or twice a year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) founder Michael Liebreich posts a magisterial summation of some trend or set of trends in the energy world. His latest report is about electric vehicles. It’s worth reading the whole thing, but it was an aside about discarded EV batteries that caught my eye. In four or five years, the batteries in the roughly one and a quarter million EVs currently on the road are…
Millions of used electric car batteries will help store energy for the grid. Maybe.
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