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  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,960 Views
16 Pages

As electric vehicle (EV) adoption continues to surge globally, the question of what to do with retired EV batteries looms large. While these batteries may no longer meet the rigorous demands of automotive use, they often retain a significant portion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,019 Views
21 Pages

Optimization Strategy for Economic Power Dispatch Utilizing Retired EV Batteries as Flexible Loads

  • Shubo Hu,
  • Hui Sun,
  • Feixiang Peng,
  • Wei Zhou,
  • Wenping Cao,
  • Anlong Su,
  • Xiaodong Chen and
  • Mingze Sun

26 June 2018

With the increasing penetration of new and renewable energy, incorporating variable adjustable power elements on the demand side is of particular interest. The utilization of batteries as flexible loads is a hot research topic. Lithium-ion batteries...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,249 Views
39 Pages

Empowering Electric Vehicles Batteries: A Comprehensive Look at the Application and Challenges of Second-Life Batteries

  • Seyedreza Azizighalehsari,
  • Prasanth Venugopal,
  • Deepak Pratap Singh,
  • Thiago Batista Soeiro and
  • Gert Rietveld

The surge in electric vehicle adoption has resulted in a significant rise in end-of-life batteries, which are unsuitable for demanding EV applications. Repurposing these batteries for secondary applications presents a promising avenue to tackle envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,915 Views
16 Pages

17 June 2024

Retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries are reused in second-life energy storage applications. However, the overall performance of repurposed energy storage systems (ESSs) is limited by the variability in the individual batteries used. Therefore, bat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,555 Views
18 Pages

Over the last 50 years since Whittingham created the world’s first lithium-ion battery (LIB) in 1970, LIBs have continued to develop and have become mainstream for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. However, when an LIB for an EV reaches 80% of i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,323 Views
17 Pages

Second-Life Assessment of Commercial LiFePO4 Batteries Retired from EVs

  • Zhi Cao,
  • Wei Gao,
  • Yuhong Fu,
  • Christopher Turchiano,
  • Naser Vosoughi Kurdkandi,
  • Jing Gu and
  • Chris Mi

30 August 2024

LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are well known for their long cycle life. However, there are many reports of significant capacity degradation in LFP battery packs after only three to five years of operation. This study assesses the second-life potential of c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,806 Views
22 Pages

Second-Life Batteries: A Review on Power Grid Applications, Degradation Mechanisms, and Power Electronics Interface Architectures

  • Ali Hassan,
  • Shahid Aziz Khan,
  • Rongheng Li,
  • Wencong Su,
  • Xuan Zhou,
  • Mengqi Wang and
  • Bin Wang

27 November 2023

The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing due to governmental policies focused on curbing climate change. EV batteries are retired when they are no longer suitable for energy-intensive EV operations. A large number of EV batteries are exp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,109 Views
25 Pages

12 January 2023

With the growing requirements of retired electric vehicles (EVs), the recycling of EV batteries is being paid more and more attention to regarding its disassembly and echelon utilization to reach highly efficient resource utilization and environmenta...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,167 Views
33 Pages

A Survey on Using Second-Life Batteries in Stationary Energy Storage Applications

  • Majid Gharebaghi,
  • Omid Rezaei,
  • Changyao Li,
  • Zhanle Wang and
  • Yili Tang

26 December 2024

As a key component of transportation decarbonization, the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is rapidly increasing. However, EV batteries are typically retired once their state of health drops to around 80%, usually after 10 to 20 years of use. Desp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,479 Views
17 Pages

Electric Vehicle Battery Health Expected at End of Life in the Upcoming Years Based on UK Data

  • Lluc Canals Casals,
  • Maite Etxandi-Santolaya,
  • Pere Antoni Bibiloni-Mulet,
  • Cristina Corchero and
  • Lluis Trilla

7 October 2022

Second-life businesses from Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries are gaining attention considering that these batteries are deemed as inappropriate for transport purposes once they reach 80 or 70% of State of Health (SoH). However, the limited number of r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,997 Views
24 Pages

24 September 2024

The rapidly increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) globally underscores the urgent need for effective management strategies for end-of-life (EOL) EV batteries. Efficient EOL management is crucial in reducing the ecological footprint of EVs an...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,481 Views
15 Pages

22 July 2025

Many electric vehicle (EV) batteries will retire in the next 5–10 years around the globe. These batteries are retired when no longer suitable for energy-intensive EV operations despite having 70–80% capacity left. The second-life use of t...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,615 Views
25 Pages

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Downstream Applications for Retired Electric Vehicle Batteries

  • Achim Kampker,
  • Heiner H. Heimes,
  • Christian Offermanns,
  • Moritz H. Frieges,
  • Maximilian Graaf,
  • Natalia Soldan Cattani and
  • Benedikt Späth

Mass transport conversion to an electrified powertrain requires suitable strategies for processing electric vehicle (EV) batteries after their intended first service life. Due to aging mechanisms, EV batteries lose capacity over their period of use a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,962 Views
15 Pages

A Layered Bidirectional Active Equalization Method for Retired Power Lithium-Ion Batteries for Energy Storage Applications

  • Yang Yang,
  • Wenchao Zhu,
  • Changjun Xie,
  • Ying Shi,
  • Furong Liu,
  • Weibo Li and
  • Zebo Tang

14 February 2020

The power from lithium-ion batteries can be retired from electric vehicles (EVs) and can be used for energy storage applications when the residual capacity is up to 70% of their initial capacity. The retired batteries have characteristics of serious...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,583 Views
10 Pages

30 September 2016

Repurposing retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries provides a potential way to reduce EV cost hurdles. Embedded in energy storage systems, second-life EV batteries could unlock the energy storage market and generate synergic value for the energy sec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,082 Views
17 Pages

With the global surge in electric vehicle (EV) deployment, driven by enhanced environmental regulations and efforts to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, managing the life cycle of Li-ion batteries becomes more critical than ever...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,022 Views
15 Pages

Lithium-ion batteries are an ideal power supplier for electric vehicles (EVs) due to their high-power density and wide operating voltage, but their performance decays to 80% before retirement from EVs. Nevertheless, they still have a particular use v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,658 Views
28 Pages

The Concept of EV’s Intelligent Integrated Station and Its Energy Flow

  • Da Xie,
  • Haoxiang Chu,
  • Yupu Lu,
  • Chenghong Gu,
  • Furong Li and
  • Yu Zhang

11 May 2015

The increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) connected to existing distribution networks as time-variant loads cause significant distortions in line current and voltage. A novel EV’s intelligent integrated station (IIS) making full use of retire...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,450 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2022

With the rapid development of electric vehicles (EVs), many EV batteries have entered the retirement stage, leading to increasing concerns about the impact of resource recycling and environmental sustainability. Some countries have successfully appli...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,115 Views
24 Pages

Assessing the Impact of First-Life Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation on Second-Life Performance

  • Sadia Tasnim Mowri,
  • Anup Barai,
  • Sanghamitra Moharana,
  • Aniruddha Gupta and
  • James Marco

19 January 2024

The driving and charging behaviours of Electric Vehicle (EV) users exhibit considerable variation, which substantially impacts the battery degradation rate and its root causes. EV battery packs undergo second-life application after first-life retirem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,958 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2023

With the development of the electric vehicle industry, the number of batteries that are retired from vehicles is increasing rapidly, which raises critical environmental and waste issues. Second-life batteries recycled from automobiles have eighty per...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
14,251 Views
29 Pages

1 February 2022

During recent years, emissions reduction has been tightened worldwide. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) that can meet emission requirements. The growing number of new EVs increases the consumption of raw materials...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,977 Views
26 Pages

Echelon Utilization of Retired Power Lithium-Ion Batteries: Challenges and Prospects

  • Ningbo Wang,
  • Akhil Garg,
  • Shaosen Su,
  • Jianhui Mou,
  • Liang Gao and
  • Wei Li

The explosion of electric vehicles (EVs) has triggered massive growth in power lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The primary issue that follows is how to dispose of such large-scale retired LIBs. The echelon utilization of retired LIBs is gradually occup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2025

The rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems (ESSs) has accelerated the generation of waste lithium-ion batteries, posing both environmental and industrial challenges. This study proposes and experimentally validates an AI-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,004 Views
12 Pages

2 December 2022

It is, undoubtedly, a widespread belief that the electric vehicle (EV) is considered sustainable. However, in the manufacturing and retirement phases, EVs do not appear to be as sustainable as internal combustion vehicles (ICVs) and during the use ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
529 Views
35 Pages

10 November 2025

The rapid increase in retired lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) from electric vehicles (EVs) highlights the urgent need for accurate and automated end-of-life (EOL) assessment. This study proposes an AI-integrated smart grading system that combines hardwa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,363 Views
23 Pages

With a global urgency to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, there has been an increasing demand for electric vehicles on the roads to replace vehicles that use internal combustion. Subsequently, the demand and consumption of raw materials have increa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,149 Views
49 Pages

In recent years, the rapid growth in electric vehicle ownership has resulted in a significant number of decommissioned traction batteries that will require recycling in the future. As consumer expectations for electric vehicle range continue to rise,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,935 Views
30 Pages

29 March 2025

With the rapid expansion of transportation electrification worldwide, the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) has increased dramatically, creating new and sustainable growth opportunities for the global economy. However, as the most expensive componen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
835 Views
33 Pages

10 August 2025

With the large-scale power batteries approaching their retirement phase, efforts are being made to advance the recycling and cascade utilization of power batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). This paper constructs a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,401 Views
13 Pages

Graphite–Phosphate Composites: Structure and Voltammetric Investigations

  • Simona Rada,
  • Alexandra Barbu Gorea and
  • Eugen Culea

12 October 2024

The utilization of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is increasing sharply with the increasing use of mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and electric vehicles worldwide. Technologies are required for the recycling and recovery of spent LIBs. In the context...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,148 Views
17 Pages

The continuous increase of the penetration of distributed generation in the distribution network poses more severe challenges for its full accommodation. In this context, an energy storage system can be installed to enhance the ability to accommodate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,995 Views
23 Pages

Readiness of Malaysian PV System to Utilize Energy Storage System with Second-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries

  • Md. Tanjil Sarker,
  • Mohammed Hussein Saleh Mohammed Haram,
  • Siow Jat Shern,
  • Gobbi Ramasamy and
  • Fahmid Al Farid

9 August 2024

The potential of renewable energy sources to lower greenhouse gas emissions and lessen our reliance on fossil fuels has accelerated their integration globally, and especially that of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Malaysia has shown great progress...