Battery company GS Yuasa has teamed up with US power company Ameren and Siemens to implement an EV charging and microgrid platform.
The Consortium for Battery Innovation (CBI) said it guided and supported the industry towards this type of innovation. Ameren Missouri will use the station to power its fleet of electric service vehicles.
The charging station will use lead batteries from GS Yuasa, drawing power from the electric grid and solar panels.
Trade body Battery Council International said in a fact sheet about 110,000 public charging points exist in the US, with only 20,000 fast chargers. By 2030, the US government has mandated 500,000 public charging points with 100,000 fast chargers, it noted.
Bill Cunningham, GS Yuasa’s vice president of sales and marketing, said: “The battery energy storage system we have designed utilises our advanced nano-carbon lead batteries along with battery management and power conversion systems, housed in containers on site.”
The batteries are capable of more than 5,000 cycles in the 1MWh microgrid. CBI’s technical director Matt Raiford said the system is easy to replicate and could be game-changing for EV charging in the US.
