The facility is storing power from a NextEra Energy Resources wind farm. After acquiring old battery parts, Element uses its own hardware and software to get further use out of them. The company's ...

One of the more promising reuses of old batteries is in whole-house backup systems like the ... If a battery is no longer able to power a car, it can still move a forklift. Even after lithium ...

Essentially, the researchers have figured out how to extract lead from old car batteries and use it as a component in solar cells that they say are just as efficient as solar cells produced with ...