Texas is using nearly 600 old EV batteries for an incredible new use after reaching the end of their automotive lives
Published on Aug 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM (UTC+4)
by Claire Reid
Last updated on Aug 07, 2025 at 2:06 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
Hundreds of old EV batteries at the end of their life are set to be put to good use in Texas to provide low-cost grid energy storage.
Almost 600 old EV batteries will be given a second life, helping to stabilize the energy grid in Texas.
The facility is being built by California-based B2U Storage Solution in Bexar County, east of San Antonia and is the third of its kind.
Once complete, the Texas facility will have a capacity of 24 megawatt hours.
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The old EV batteries will be put to very good use in Texas
One of the major environmental concerns when it comes to EV batteries is what happens to them when they’re no longer usable.
As many as 100,000 EVs, and therefore 100,000 electric car batteries, will be retired this year in the US alone – and traditionally old EV batteries haven’t been the easiest things to recycle.
Thankfully, times are changing, and several companies are working on ways to reuse these old EV batteries.
One such company is B2U Storage Solutions, which recently announced a new energy storage facility in Texas that is made up of hundreds of old batteries from electric vehicles.
The batteries will be housed in 21 cabinets roughly the size of shipping containers, and will charge up when there is an excess of renewable energy production on the grid and power is relatively cheap.
This is the first of its kind in Texas, but the company is planning on building three more similar facilities throughout 2026, which will have a combined capacity of 100 megawatt hours.
To give that some context, the Texas Tribune reports that an average Texan household uses 30 kilowatt hours per day, so the facilities could have enough energy to power more than 3,000 homes for a day.
“We’re really helping to pioneer and demonstrate to the automotive industry that repurposing makes a lot of sense for a pretty healthy number of batteries before they’re truly ready for end of life and recycling,” CEO and co-founder of B2U Storage Solutions, Freeman Hall told the publication.
It’s not the only use for old batteries from electric cars
B2U Storage Solutions isn’t the only company cutting down on EV battery waste.
Redwood Materials, a company founded by a former Tesla exec, specializes in reusing and recycling electric car batteries.
In a blog post, the company explained that it has received around 250,000 old EV batteries so far and has found that many of them have more than half of their usable capacity.
So, rather than leaving the batteries to rot, Redwood Materials has been repurposing them as both stationary energy storage and in lower-power applications.
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Claire Reid is a journalist who hails from the UK but is now living in New Zealand. She began her career after graduating with a degree in Journalism from Liverpool John Moore’s University and has more than a decade of experience, writing for both local newspapers and national news sites. Claire covers a wide variety of topics, with a special focus on cars, technology, planes, cryptocurrency, and luxury.
