10.5281/ZENODO.4025444
Kelly, Jarod C.
Jarod C.
Kelly
Winjobi, Olumide
Olumide
Winjobi
Battery Second Life: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities
Zenodo
2020
Second-life battery
lithium battery
BEV (battery electric vehicle)
PHEV (plug in hybrid electric vehicle)
2020-09-12
Conference paper
https://zenodo.org/record/4025444
10.5281/zenodo.4025443
https://zenodo.org/communities/evs33
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Open Access
<p>Electric vehicles contain lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) that tend to be both large and expensive, and these LIBs likely have significant storage capacity remaining when they can no longer meet the power and energy demands of a typical vehicle application. That remaining LIB capacity could provide a financial opportunity to many individuals and institutions along the possible value chain towards its eventual end-of-life. This could include vehicle owners, battery repurposers (those that collect, evaluate, and repackage used LIBs), battery second-life users (grid operators, businesses, hospitals, etc.), and, ultimately, battery recyclers (who recover valuable battery materials via physical, thermal, and chemical methods). This article reviews the present market of battery second life to identify current activities and challenges.</p>