Toyota’s residential energy storage solution is based on EV batteries

The world-famous carmaker Toyota has launched a battery-based energy storage system for home use in Japan, according to a company press release. The company is confident that the energy storage system can offer ‘peace of mind’ to customers in terms of performance, safety, and value for money. Homeowners who live ‘off-the-grid’ or are looking to expedite the transition to renewable energy need a reliable battery storage system. Even as research enables more efficient renewable energy generation systems, the problems of irregularity in supply are likely to remain. It would take decades of research until we figured out how to access solar energy, in spite of the Earth’s rotation. Until then, energy storage devices will be needed to tide over the irregularity. Learnings from electric vehiclesThe push for electrified transportation, primarily cars, has led to many innovations in…

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