Questions and challenges for the growing EV ESS market

ReJoule's cofounders at PlugVolt

Recapping takeaways from the PlugVolt Battery Seminar. We learned a lot at the PlugVolt Battery Seminar in Plymouth, MI! Here are some of our key takeaways and learnings.

We enjoyed talking battery with automakers, battery suppliers, test equipment makers, and regulators. We particularly enjoyed touring Intertek’s 120,000 sqft testing facility in Plymouth which performs various stress testing functions for automotive applications. FCA’s Oliver Gross gave a great presentation on designing with repurposing and recycling in mind, and Ashok from NEC highlighted how the differences in requirements in mobile vs stationary is driving a divergence in battery technology development, opening up many new exciting opportunities.

There’s still so many more questions than answers regarding battery diagnostics, maintenance, safety, compliance, and cost optimization. How do you service a larger battery during maintenance? How do you properly incentivize automakers and battery suppliers to design for repurposing and recycling if they don’t see financial benefit?  Could compliance add enough cost to second-life batteries to make the business model unviable? How do ensure we have solutions that are also optimized for their requirements?

The common consensus: more advanced diagnostics and battery management is needed.  Everyone was excited to know that ReJoule is working on exactly that! We’ve posed a lot of questions and we want to hear your responses.

How do you envision meeting some of these challenges and where do you foresee changes? What part can we all play in driving reasonable standards?

We know there’s a lot of obstacles in the way, let’s start a dialogue to work through these complex issues together! Please feel free to contact us at info@rejouleenergy.com or start a dialogue with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Cheers,

The ReJouligans!