Porsche Successfully creates 5-megawatt energy storage system using recycled EV batteries

TapTechNews August 12th, the German luxury carmaker Porsche announced that it has successfully reused waste electric vehicle batteries to create a 5-megawatt energy storage system. This system has now been put into use and is located at Porsche's factory in Leipzig, Germany.

According to TapTechNews, This energy storage system is composed of 4400 individual battery modules, which can withstand up to 20% overload in a short time. The entire system is divided into four battery containers, and the designed life is more than ten years. According to Porsche, if necessary, individual battery modules can be replaced separately.

It is worth noting that these battery modules are all from the pre-production and test vehicles of the Porsche Taycan model, which can be directly used in the energy storage system without any technical modifications.

Porsche project leader Jonathan Dietrich said that the construction of the energy storage system aims to improve the economic efficiency and self-sufficiency of the Leipzig factory. Considering the battery condition of the Taycan pre-production vehicles, using them for energy storage rather than recycling is the most reasonable choice.

In addition, this energy storage system can not only store the electricity from the 9.4-megawatt photovoltaic system in the factory, but also shave the peak and fill the valley to optimize the grid load. With the popularity of electric devices such as electric vehicles and heat pumps, the power demand is continuously increasing, and the importance of shaving the peak and filling the valley is increasingly prominent. Porsche plans to connect this system to the balancing grid market by the end of the year to provide grid stability services.

Porsche disclosed that it plans to promote this energy storage system technology to other factories in the future.