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    Mercedes strikes second-life EV battery pact with Canadian startup Moment Energy

    Editor - The Auto JournalBy Editor - The Auto JournalJuly 7, 2022Updated:July 10, 2022No Comments2 Mins Read
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    A Mercedes-Benz Group subsidiary that focuses on electrical automobile battery storage has reached an settlement with a Canadian startup to repurpose partly-spent EV batteries.

    Mercedes-Benz Energy will provide used batteries from the automaker’s electrical automobiles to Vancouver-based Moment Energy Inc., which is able to convert them to modules that present rechargeable energy to business and industrial buildings.

    A serious problem of electrical automobiles is what to do with the batteries as soon as the automobile ends its helpful life. Those equipped to Moment Energy by Mercedes-Benz could have at the least 70 per cent of their capability. That’s sufficient for energy-storage techniques that may be deployed to cut back consumption at business websites.

    “The scalability of the storage systems basically enables a very wide range of customers,” Gordon Gassmann, chief government officer of Mercedes-Benz Energy, mentioned in an e mail. “Since the market is still very young, it potentially offers a wide range of opportunities.”

    The residual vitality capability that may be equipped from second-life batteries is anticipated to surge, from seven gigawatt hours to 276 Gwh by 2035, as the primary era of electrical automobiles is changed, in line with Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) estimates. 

    The modules created by Moment Energy will present energy for seven to 10 years, mentioned Sumreen Rattan, co-founder and chief working officer of the corporate. The firm is within the strategy of constructing relationships which recyclers that might probably salvage supplies after that. 

    “We’ve deployed projects using second-life battery systems already in the field. So we’ve been getting a lot of data, a lot of positive results from our pilots that are out and deployed,” Rattan mentioned in an interview. 

    Moment Energy, which in 2020 reached an identical settlement with Nissan Motor Co.’s unit in North America, is within the strategy of elevating between $15 million and $20 million in collection A financing, she mentioned. Last 12 months, the corporate raised $3.5 million of seed capital in a spherical led by Version One Ventures. 

    Royal Bank of Canada’s enterprise capital platform can also be offering $1 million in debt financing, Rattan mentioned. 

    Source: canada.autonews.com

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