At a solar site in Lancaster, California, more than 1,300 battery packs pulled out of retired Nissan and Honda cars sit wired together as 32 megawatt-hours of grid storage, the largest of a growing portfolio that includes sites in California and Texas
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On a stretch of flat desert floor outside Lancaster, California, rows of white steel cabinets sit beside a solar array. Inside those cabinets are more than 1,300 lithium-ion battery packs, each one retired from a car whose battery had simply fallen below the range or performance its original owner needed. Together they store 32 megawatt-hours of electricity — enough to power thousands of homes for several hours — and they do it using hardware that Nissan and Honda originally built to move people
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