Submission + - Nissan Electric Car Batteries Get Second Life (datacenterdynamics.com)
judgecorp writes: Nissan has announced a scheme to re-use batteries from its Leaf cars in systems designed to ease the strain on the electrical grid by shaving peaks in demand and making it easier to integrate renewables. After five years powering a car, a 24kWh battery still has 20kWh charging capacity and can act as local storage for a UPS (from Nissan's partner Eaton). with multiple batteries in use, the system could support an IT room or a small enterprise data center — or deliver a small electric grid to a village in Africa, or anywhere that doesn't have a proper grid.