In the fuel card industry, there is always an anxious wait for path-breaking developments that have the potential to change the way we evolve and work in the automotive world.
So, when Nissan Motors announced its plans to try and partner with ABB in utilizing the ‘used vehicle batteries’ of electric cars in an effort to build a storage capacity for the power grids, then we all got interested at the massive scope of energy rationalization that is on offer in such project.
It is true that many such attempts have been made in the past to conserve or re-cycle old and used vehicle batteries. However, the Nissan Motors is actually talking about using the dead electric vehicle batteries in complete form and shape to build incidental power capacity for the power grids. What this essentially means is that the old and dead batteries won’t be broken into individual parts, and rather an attempt will be made to re-deploy the old battery’s left-over storage capacity. Given the fact that old vehicle batteries would be able to afford 10 or 20% of the total charge in any case, this measure could obviously mean a lot of cost conservation, besides boosting the efforts to conserve the green environment.
Since this proposal is better than the battery re-cycling process that requires the battery to be broken apart to use the individual components such as the charging plates, it is clear that with an organized planning and right kind of targeting, power grids could get to lay a hand on the vast amounts of secondary storage medium to build up their overall power capacities.
One must admit though that there are many caveats in this proposal at this point of time. However, with a step in the right direction, we would ultimately see progress being made in the acts of utilizing the vehicle batteries in a better and more complete way for the benefit of the businesses and environment alike.