Waymo has announced a cope with an power storage firm known as B2U to make use of retired robotaxi batteries to serve electrical energy grids in California and Texas.
The deal helps reply the query of how Waymo is considering the end-of-life remedy of the 1000’s of robotaxis it has deployed round america. Nearly all of these are presently Jaguar I-Tempo EVs, although the corporate has not too long ago began deploying a restricted variety of vans constructed by Chinese language automaker Zeekr.
Waymo stated the partnership will contain the deployment of “lots of of megawatts of storage capability” however didn’t provide any additional specifics.
B2U is one among quite a few corporations specializing in battery repurposing quite than recycling. Redwood Supplies, based by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel and backed partially by Waymo’s mum or dad firm Alphabet, not too long ago spun up its personal second-life storage enterprise utilizing outdated EV batteries.
