[HN Gopher] EV Batteries Could Retire to Solar Farms
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       EV Batteries Could Retire to Solar Farms
        
       Author : vwoolf
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-01-04 18:49 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | callalex wrote:
       | They don't mention anything about rates of fire and how they
       | suppress those fires (especially important in sunny rural
       | California). Are they decommissioning packs before their absolute
       | end of life to reduce this risk or are they trying to squeeze
       | every last drop out of them?
        
       | Terr_ wrote:
       | It's like that old trope [0] about the family dog retiring to a
       | farm, except (hopefully) nobody is quite that emotionally-
       | invested in their batteries.
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       | [0] Warning: Time-wasting infinite wiki
       | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DogGotSentToAFar...
        
       | mensetmanusman wrote:
       | would be great if the capital value is very well understood and
       | you could pre-sell the asset to reduce upfront EV cost :)
        
       | TheLoafOfBread wrote:
       | No they won't because older battery is, the higher probability of
       | fire - see lithium dendrites
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       | https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/lithium-dendr...
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/how-a-company...
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         | https://www.marketplace.org/2023/07/14/old-ev-batteries-stor...
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         | https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi7633
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         | https://www.mdpi.com/2032-6653/14/6/161
        
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