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Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage
Key takeaways
- Waymo has announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas.
- The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of robotaxis it has deployed around the United States.
- Waymo said the partnership will involve the deployment of hundreds of megawatts of storage capacity but did not offer any further specifics.
Waymo has announced a deal with an energy storage company called B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas.
The deal helps answer the question of how Waymo is thinking about the end-of-life treatment of the thousands of robotaxis it has deployed around the United States. Almost all of those are currently Jaguar I-Pace EVs, though the company has recently started deploying a limited number of vans built by Chinese automaker Zeekr.
Waymo said the partnership will involve the deployment of hundreds of megawatts of storage capacity but did not offer any further specifics.
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