Jaguar Land Rover, storage system and batteries for Range Rover

With the advent of electricity, battery recycling and reuse issues are increasingly discussed. Today, automakers are working to manage batteries once they reach the end of their useful lives in vehicles. One way could be recycling, recovering basic raw materials to create new batteries. However, at the same time, manufacturers are looking for more and more ways to reuse batteries in other areas, giving accumulators a second life.

Jaguar Land Roverfor example, it announced that it had developed a new energy storage system which absorbs Range Rover PHEV type batteries. The project was made thanks to cooperation and Allye Energy.

According to what was said, each one Allye MAX BESS has seven battery packs of Range Rover and Range Rover Sport PHEV. The batteries are simply removed from the vehicles and inserted into the custom racks, without unnecessary additional work. In general, each storage unit can have one capacity of 270 kWhenough to feed an English family for almost a month (estimated based on the average consumption of an English family: 2,700 kWh per year according to the company).

This storage unit can also be used for electric power or plug vehicles. Jaguar Land Rover says up to 9 Range Rover PHEVs can be charged at the same time. MAX BESS can also be used for instead of diesel generators it is often used to supply power to electric vehicles during launch events in remote areas or to power electrical equipment at events where there is no power grid. The JLR engineering team was the first to use this storage system to power the Range Rover Electric during development testing. Consider, for example, remote test sites where only low-power charging points are available. The BEV prototype will be presented, the company notes, at the end of the year.

The storage system weighs less than 3.5 tonnes and will also be commercially available for use outside of JLR. Reuben ChorleyDirector of Industrial Sustainability at Jaguar Land Rover, commented:

We are excited to be working with Allye Energy on this next-generation sustainable project that will help demonstrate the potential of our supply chain prospects. Creating mainstream battery projects like this is essential if we are to make sustainability a reality at JLR and push towards our goal of zero carbon emissions by 2039.