Electric vehicle battery — Wind storage system

Author

Patten, John ; Christensen, Nathan ; Nola, Gary ; Srivastava, Steven

Author_Institution

Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, USA

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The proposed concept utilizes the electric vehicle (EV) battery waste stream as a means to store wind energy in order to increase wind energy capacity factor, improve utilization, and make more efficient use of EV batteries prior to recycling. Michigan is an ideal location for such a facility because many of the battery and automotive manufacturers are located within the state. A 200 MW wind farm can charge a battery farm which consists of all reject and post-consumer batteries and all EVs located in Michigan by 2015. Michigan is on track to meet a 10% renewable portfolio by 2015 with over 1100 MW of planned new wind projects to be installed by that time. Therefore, Michigan has an adequate amount of wind capacity to charge the EV battery wind-storage facility and all of Michigan consumer EVs.

Keywords

electric vehicles; recycling; renewable energy sources; secondary cells; wind power plants; Michigan; automotive manufacturers; battery farm charge; battery manufacturers; electric vehicle battery; power 200 MW; recycling; renewable portfolio; utilization; waste stream; wind energy capacity factor; wind farm; wind storage system; Batteries; Manufacturing; Portfolios; Production; Recycling; Renewable energy resources; Wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-248-6

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VPPC.2011.6043111

Filename

6043111