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How a V2G and vehicle-to-home (V2H)-enabled GM charging and energy system could look. Image: GM

General Motors plots sodium-ion tech leapfrog into grid-scale energy storage market

June 10, 2026
General Motors (GM) has partnered with sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery storage startup Peak Energy to target the grid-scale energy storage market.
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Decommissioned Audi EV batteries used in 4.5MWh stationary energy storage system in Germany

January 4, 2022
Used lithium-ion batteries taken from carmaker Audi’s electric vehicles (EVs) have been repurposed into a ‘second-life’ stationary energy storage system by energy company RWE at a project in Herdecke, Germany. 
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