Nissan is preparing its “Second Life” project, aimed at combining batteries used in its LEAF with a power plant in Melilla, Spain, operated by electricity supplier Enel Group, in order to enhance grid stability in an isolated network.
As part of the collaboration, Nissan has provided new and used batteries from its electric vehicles to the Spanish power plant in order to do something useful with the batteries after they’re no longer useful in vehicles.
“This is a project we strongly believed in since day one,” said Ernesto Ciorra, the Enel Group’s Chief Innovability Officer. “We involved important partners alongside counting on the relentless dedication of our colleagues and on a real, operating plant where we could implement storage solutions through second-life batteries. And what would have been called impossible only a few years ago became possible,…