Power Battery Second-life Application to Deploy 20 Gwh Energy Storage System! General Motors Collaborates with U.S. Battery Recycling Enterprise

Published: Jul 18, 2025 17:52

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SMM has learned that General Motors recently reached a cooperation agreement with a US battery recycling enterprise, providing it with both new and used power batteries for secondary use in energy storage systems. Previously, General Motors successfully applied a 12MW/63MWh microgrid project powered by its batteries to supply electricity to a data center equipped with 2,000 GPUs. In June of this year, the energy storage division of this US enterprise focused on transforming retired EV batteries into grid-scale energy storage systems.
During their tests, they found that many recycled batteries still had a relatively long service life. Therefore, they adopted the second-life application approach, directly reassembling the original battery packs instead of dismantling them for material recycling. Currently, the company has recycled approximately 70% of scrap lithium batteries in the US and plans to deploy 20GWh of energy storage systems by 2028. Its co-founder stated that the growth potential of this business may exceed that of the core recycling business.

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