Alternative energy sources - a very popular theme in Western countries. In some parts of Europe have emerged excess of electricity produced from conventionally environmental sources. Excess electricity can be sold or accumulate to smooth out fluctuations in consumption. To do this, suitable industrial use batteries. As reports Computerworld, the German carmaker Daimler AG together with partners in Germany, intends to build an industrial power storage device capable of storing up to 13 megawatt-hours.
The basic building blocks for such a drive will become second-hand traction batteries of electric cars and hybrids respective automaker. For the stated capacity will require about thousands of such batteries. Daimler sets a ten-year period of operation traction batteries in cars, ensuring that during this period the efficiency of the battery drops below 80%. Transferring such a battery into the stationary storage, where performance requirements are not so strict, it is possible to operate it for another ten years, according to Daimler. In addition, the implementation of the old batteries in the framework of these projects will further offset the cost of production of new traction batteries.
Daimler AG does not intend to use the battery used to create the household storage of electricity, but the German manufacturer is confident that in the industrial sector its decision compete with the products of Tesla Motors.
Meanwhile, the last of the companies, according to the publication Bloomberg, is in talks with the German authorities on the possibility of the construction of the enterprise for the production of batteries in Germany. American manufacturer already has a car assembly factory in the Netherlands, where electric cars are going in the European specifications.