Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Electric vehicle batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand by as early as 2030

  • Chengjian Xu,
  • Paul Behrens,
  • Paul Gasper,
  • Kandler Smith,
  • Mingming Hu,
  • Arnold Tukker,
  • Bernhard Steubing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35393-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Renewable energy and electric vehicles will be required for the energy transition, but the global electric vehicle battery capacity available for grid storage is not constrained. Here the authors find that electric vehicle batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand by as early as 2030.