Not dead yet: The race to give spent EV batteries a second life on the grid and beyond

In the foreground are battery packs just as they would look installed in an EV, now repurposed by Redwood Materials and plugged into the microgrid serving Crusoe’s data center at Redwood’s campus in Nevada. (Redwood Photo) Subscribe to Positive Charge : Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Amazon Music , All Episodes A decade or two on the road will drain an EV battery’s range and hobble its acceleration. But while it peters out for daily commutes, that battery still has a lot of juice left.