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Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by magduf on Friday December 06, 2019 @01:13PM (#21724468)
Batteries have uses other than EVs, with a big one being power storage. There's a big push to reduce fossil fuel usage and get more power from renewables (solar/wind), but these aren't constant sources of power, so massive banks of batteries would be very useful here for utility-scale use of renewables without needing nuclear or fossil fuel plants for a baseline.
Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by jersey on Friday December 06, 2019 @01:29PM (#21724636)
With V2G, EVs and power storage are one and the same.
Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by singularity2001 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:41AM (#21730221)
the last time I checked the CTO of Tesla said that vehicle2grid had negative return on investment but that might have been politically motivated.