The automaker GM and Nissan want to save money at the expensive batteries for electric cars by make later on recycling.
The most expensive part of modern electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles is still the DELL XPS M1530 battery. The companies Nissan and GM, both of which begin in the coming months with the sale of a new-generation electric car now want to reduce costs with innovative recycling projects.
Nissan’s sake, was in September, a joint venture with the Japanese industrial giant Sumitomo, while GM team up with the power plant and electricity supplier ABB. Both partnerships are hoping to give used car batteries a second life – as an energy store for tasks that are less demanding than her previous job at the electric car.
End of the year will bring the Chevrolet Volt with GM’s first plug-in hybrids on the market. He travels 65 km wide when it is purely electrically powered – fed by a lithium-ion Dell Vostro 1510 battery pack. Additional 480 km range produces a small gasoline engine, which in turn drives a generator that charges the battery. Nissan in turn has its Leaf on sale soon – a fully battery-powered vehicle that will be up to 160 kilometers at a stretch on the way, if you somewhat cautious on the road.
The HP Pavilion DV5 Battery of an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrids still costs almost as much as a small car – in the U.S. market are the 10000-15000 dollars. In addition, the development costs of the recent e-generation car was not exactly small. Therefore, observers believe, like Michael Omotoso, market analyst at JD Power, not to a quick profit for the manufacturer. “It is important that useful applications are found for used batteries. This could bring additional valuable revenue producers.”
Car manufacturers expect that most vehicle batteries, which will replace the customer then after a few years, at least 50 to 80 percent of its initial capacity will be retained. What’s in the car is not worth more because it has decimated the range too much, in other interesting uses, hope GM and Nissan. This could such HP Pavilion dv6000 Battery packs are used to implement emergency generators for data centers – or directly in the electric power to supply fluctuations. That would help, among other new, green energy options that can not operate continuously at full power – solar and wind power, for example.
But this market has created initially. “So far it still lacks of a direct demand for lithium-ion Dell Inspiron 1720 battery from cars,” says Omotoso. The more renewable energy sources are tapped, the faster but that could change.
Mark Duvall, director of the research field of energy storage when operated by the U.S. power industry Electric Power Research Institute, can already tell from the first pilot projects. They might be, he hopes, just completed at the right time – namely, when sufficient Used batteries are available. “The timing of the work being done at the auto industry is fine.”
Have spurred new partnerships, GM and Nissan, both manufacturers will help you find strategies for future marketing of their used batteries. It is important to answer some questions – about whether the Dell Latitude D610 battery packs must be first broken down and recombined, which applications are appropriate and where really really can earn the most money. So does the application profile: Instead of being like in the car unloaded and reloaded quickly, need to recycle batteries store energy in their new application field for hours if not days. Duvall expert believes that some companies pay very high prices for batteries with capacities still acceptable – such as for the emergency generators mentioned in data centers.
Still can not say whether such maneuvers make recycling Dell Latitude E4300 battery for the end user really cheaper. “We look forward to a very foggy crystal ball,” said Micky Bly, Executive Director of E-Systems at GM. So initially will provide mainly the state that electric cars can compete with the diesel-and gasoline-powered competitors – through subsidies, as in the U.S. for example, are available. Without such measures would have to significantly reduce the cost of batteries quickly – from the current 500-1000 dollars per kilowatt hour to between 200 and 300 dollars.
Bly, GM’s man expects the marketing of used Dell Studio 1735 battery savings initially only be “single-digit percentage range” permit – the rest must come from other areas, such as improved production methods.
Menahem Anderman, founder of specializing in battery technology consulting firm, Total Battery Consulting, has meanwhile pointed out that the idea of ??making batteries used for money “for many years, just a nice vision” was. “Plans that really work, I have not seen yet.” One of the problems is the unpredictability of the art: No one could say how long an eight year old battery actually holds still. On the other hand, the question of security.
The economic value of such batteries could be decimated by the fact that they have yet to be tested extensively – logistics and possible guarantees are not too cheap, says Anderman. He therefore expects that the used batteries are expected eventually to reach a final value “of well under $ 100 per kilowatt hour” – “maybe even less than 50 dollars.” That would be only 10 percent of the price of a fresh battery pack.
