Waymo announced a cope with an power storage firm referred to 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 therapy of the hundreds of robotaxis it has deployed round america. Virtually all of these are at the moment Jaguar I-Tempo EVs, although the corporate has lately began deploying a restricted variety of vans constructed by Chinese language automaker Zeekr.
Waymo mentioned the partnership will contain the deployment of “tons of of megawatts of storage capability” however didn’t provide any additional specifics.
B2U is one in all quite a few firms specializing in battery repurposing reasonably than recycling. Redwood Supplies, based by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel and backed partly by Waymo’s guardian firm Alphabet, lately spun up its personal second-life storage enterprise utilizing outdated EV batteries.
