Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage - BERITAJA

Waymo has announced a woody pinch an power retention institution called B2U to usage retired robotaxi batteries to service energy grids successful California and Texas.

The woody helps reply the mobility of really Waymo is reasoning about the end-of-life curen of the thousands of robotaxis it has deployed about the United States. Almost each of those are presently Jaguar I-Pace EVs, though the institution has precocious started deploying a constricted number of vans built by Chinese automaker Zeekr.

Waymo said the business will impact the deployment of “hundreds of megawatts of retention capacity” but did not connection immoderate further specifics.

B2U is 1 of galore companies focusing connected artillery repurposing alternatively than recycling. Redwood Materials, founded by erstwhile Tesla CTO JB Straubel and backed successful portion by Waymo’s genitor institution Alphabet, precocious spun up its ain second-life retention business utilizing aged EV batteries.